$40 Per Day Plan Fails to Sway British Columbians
Prince George, B.C. – A new Insights West survey shows British Columbians remain unmoved in their support of teachers despite Victoria's plan to offer $40 a day for daycare if the strike drags into September.
"Across the province, 37% of residents support that plan while most, 52%, deems it "a bad" or "very bad" idea .
The online survey also revealed close to three quarters of the population are paying close or moderate attention to the situation and the majority support the teachers.
"Almost half of British Columbians (49%) say they support the BCTF in the current contract dispute, while just over a third (38%) favour the provincial government," says Insight Wests' Mario Canseco.
And predictably the survey also found that the dispute is having a major impact on parents.
"Seven-in-ten parents with a child in the public school system (71%) say they have made arrangements for their children to be properly cared for in case the schools are not open in September. More than half of those parents (56%) say the contract dispute has caused stress at work for them, and 41% are worried about the effect the contract dispute could have on their career," adds Canseco.
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Don’t believe in polls where free money’s involved, they’ll take it and run.
Seriously how can you trust poll results of what, 50 or 100 people in the province. Insight West’s results are always questionable.
Any parent with half a brain would choose education over daycare.
Of course you won’t believe in poll results, if those results do not support your entrenched position.
Get a poll result that supports your position and you would hold it up high for all to see, isn’t that right? *rolls eyeballs*
ervboy is right; “any parent with half a brain would choose education over daycare.”
So why are the poll results so surprising and questionable to some?
People#1..(aka BeingHuman)
your one of the worst ones on here for bragging about poll results..especially when it comes to pipelines.. *rolls eyeballs*..
typical left wing lunacy at its finest..
Was this a poll of parents only, or is it skewed with the results of the general population, and if so how do they know they only polled parents.
Of course people without kids would oppose some form of compensation for day care if schools are out, but people with kids may very we’ll need this to be able to work and they will support the reallocation of funds from education to daycare for the duration of the strike.
So for the poll results to have meaning they need to be clear where residents are delineated from parents… So as to understand the motives and perspective of those polled.
Agreed, Eagleone.
“Any parent with half a brain would choose education over daycare.”
Yes, indeed. But that does not speak to whether or not they support the Gov’t, or the BCTF. As a parent of a high-school kid, the $40 won’t be coming to me. I will be looking for a tutor who can come and give my kid assignments, to keep her brain going while these two sides bicker. That will come directly out of my own pocket.
It is one thing to struggle with day-care issues for a gr. 2 kid. Quite another to let a gr. 12 kid go for months without education. How will that be made up? At what cost?
Yea polls are always 100% correct, just ask Premier Adrian Dix who had a 29 point lead on Cristy election eve.
The results are less accurate these days as the only people that pick up the phone are basement dwellers and those without call display.
Unfortunately, the $40/day has stipulations. Must go to a licensed day care – so no paying the teenager down the street to watch the kids, or the stay at home parent next door. And I don’t believe tutors would be covered either.
Ridiculous! Put the money into the teachers’ contracts and get them back to work. Pay them what they’re worth! I would like to see what their hourly wage works out to if you consider all of the work they do before and after the bells ring. My children are finally out of the school system and not once did I think the the teachers didn’t deserve what they bargained for. I attended every parent-teacher conference and I always left with the impression that every one of them cared about the success of my children. When you count the number of teachers I spoke to between Kindergarten and Grade 12, it adds up. Thanks teachers for doing an overall excellent job.
The government has no intention of paying $40 a day. Nothing more than a smoke screen.
Ha! I’ll be working my night shift and getting up to watch my Grandbabies and f’ed if I get any $40 per kid per day. Both sides can get stuffed so far as I’m concerned.
It’s just a big crock of s__t.
If the damn government is so concerned about the parents affording child care, then where is this $40 a day all summer?
I don’t know anyone that has the whole summer off to look after there kids while school is out… I don’t see the extra hardship come September.
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