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EDUCATION

The Age’s article on parents holding their children back from school raises some dilemmas (“ Parents put intuition before calendar dates for school start ”, 5/10). While school readiness is key, other factors come into play. Victoria’s kinder system, with its minimal hours, only works for families with a home-based parent (or nanny). Thus for many pre-schoolers, early learning is in a childcare setting where pre-school teachers often earn less than those in the education sector and quality is variable.

We moved to Victoria from NSW when my son was going i

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