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(From what my friend said who is an educator has told me) Educators are undervalued, underpaid and short staffed. Often mistaken for child minders when really they do so much more. They’re experiencing burnout. The daycare centre she works at has a lot of politics (like any other job) so there’s that too 🤷🏻♀️
It goes in waves I find, I've been a kinder teacher for 13years now you see other educators burn out and leave followed sometimes by others in the same workplace. We aren't respected, we are overworked, underpaid and in a very stressful job. It really can depend on the service, if support is given and conditions are decent educators will stay but all that can change very fast. If educators are leaving your centre quickly there's perhaps an underlying issue.
It's very common in private centres, especially ones that underpay their staff (which is a lot of them).
This is shocked me so much! We pay $185 per day. You'd assume the 2 educators in the room would get a fair chunk of that from each child 🥲🥲
That money goes to the investors first, then insurances and rent and then educators. I worked admin for a daycare for a while and the 2IC was gloating about underpaying some of the staff. I tried to report it but because it wasn't me, my report to the union was largely ignored.
Unfortunately, educators have it tough in Australia. Disrespect and a lack of understanding of how hard the job is, coupled with low pay, long hours and increasingly complex needs to children can lead to burn out.