Associate Degree required for childcare workers:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...get-college-degrees/
Would one need an Associate Degree to provide childcare professionally?
After all, lots of degree-less parents take care of their own children just fine.
Is it like an electrical or a plumber where you can string your own wires and lay your own pipes yourself without a license, but you need a license to do the same for other people?

String your own wires?

I expect to see a lot of new education requirements if "free college for all" becomes a thing.

I see this as a result of the continuing attacks on public education.

Boy, i don't know about this.

Is there any proof that children who are harmed in day care are disproportionately harmed by workers without college degrees? I don't see why the two things would be connected.

One of the child care center owners said she has 9 kids (don't know if she has a helper). If they are interested in enhancing safety, they should think about the ratios and measures to improve supervision, I would think.

Day care in the district is obscenely expensive already. I can't imagine what will happen when a big chunk of the day care providers can't find staff.

Oldest, until recently, was a preschool teacher (as was I) and worked in childcare while in HS.

The pay sucks...not a living wage by any means, not to mention very part time and variable hours...Let us not forget the stress.

Massachusetts has a childcare system with continuing ed requirements (that can be done online) and the community college offers early childhood ed class to get a state certification (I got it while I worked in a daycare/preschool but my lovely family daycare employer paid for it).

If you ask for an associates degree, you will find that there will be a dire shortage of childcare workers...just sayin. The cost of the education is not worth the wages earned in the field.

And many of the best day care workers are parents..What better education is there than to raise your own kids?