Parents of public and childcare extended care must pay the hourly fees themselves, and the entire education industry calls on the Ministry of Education to provide comprehensive subsidies to reduce the burden on parents.

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[Reporter Lin Xiaoyun/Taipei Report] The enrollment of public and kindergartens in Tainan City has declined. The National Federation of Education Industry Federation issued a statement today saying that public and kindergartens leave school at 4 o'clock, while private children can arrive at 6 o'clock. Private children who join quasi-public kindergartens are under the Ministry of Education. Under the subsidy, almost all students can stay in the kindergarten for free after school, but the fees for after-school stay in the kindergarten are borne by parents because there is no subsidy, and the cost is higher than that of non-profit and quasi-public kindergartens, which may reduce parents’ willingness to send care. , and then abandon the public to private children.

Lin Shuojie, chairman of the board of directors of the whole education industry, said that there is currently zero subsidy for the extended care of public and elementary students, and called on the Ministry of Education to fully subsidize the extended care expenses of public and children to reduce the burden on parents.

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Tainan’s public and kindergarten enrollment has declined, and the director of education of Tainan City, Zheng Xinhui, said that it should be affected by the epidemic; Tainan Mayor Huang Weizhe said that public kindergarten services should be improved. It is more convenient for parents to pick up and drop off. In the future, they can find ways to extend the school hours of public and young children to make public and young children more competitive.

Lin Shuojie said that for public and child care, the Ministry of Education should fully subsidize the expenses related to after-school stay in kindergarten and extended care. Currently, counties and cities only subsidize low-income, middle- and low-income households and families with special circumstances, but they are not the general recipients of the subsidy. For students, all expenses are borne by the parents themselves.

Lin Shuojie said that in order to enhance the competitiveness of public and kindergartens, Tainan City has lowered teachers' after-school hourly fees. According to the "Tainan City Public Kindergarten's After-School Service Promotion Plan", for every reduction of one student, teachers' hourly fees will be reduced by 40 yuan. , if the number of participating students is reduced to 4, the hourly fee will be reduced to 200 yuan for 1 hour per day. There are 80 days in a semester, and each parent must pay 400 yuan; there is only one class of kindergarten, and there is a need for extended care There are probably only 1 or 2 students left, and the hourly fee is estimated to be 15,000 yuan per semester, all of which must be borne by parents, which may cause parents to abandon public and private children.

Lin Shuojie questioned that the after-school service in Tainan City should be listed as overtime due to the off-duty hours, but it was 50% less than the original hourly fee of 400 yuan, and the hourly fee for teachers was only 200 yuan. At the time of the increase, Tainan City claimed to enhance the competitiveness of public and young children, but it was actually squeezing the labor of education and security service personnel?

The whole education industry suggested that the Ministry of Education should fully subsidize public and elementary school students to stay in the kindergarten after school, avoid the phenomenon of grotesquely squeezing teachers' labor in various counties and cities, and fully implement the subsidy policy for schooling between the ages of 2 and 6 to enhance the competitiveness of public and elementary school children.