Yes, and I think of the parents who heard these revelations and who had just dropped their child off at the nursery… Because every time that shortcomings are revealed, the private nurseries say: “It’s an isolated act because of a black sheep”. Except that there, Victor Castanet has just got his hands on the whole herd.
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Castanet was the journalist who revealed the scandal of private nursing homes Orpea. The shares had fallen, the group had collapsed. Now, it’s the turn of the private daycare centers People & Baby. And there too, it’s the shareholders who are going to shit their diapers… So nursing homes and daycare centers, same fight. That way, when we’re 85 and we’re mistreated, we’ll be able to say “Oh well, that reminds me of my childhood!” Moreover, in my opinion, as we speak, private clinics are checking the number of compresses per patient.
Castanet’s investigation reveals the existence of low-cost daycare centers, with overbooking, fewer staff and meal rationing. They ration meals! But babies, they eat baby food! How do you ration a baby food? Do three of them eat on top of it and the fourth licks the spoon? What’s next? Co-bottle feeding?
Even the Matignon crèche chose the low-cost solution! Well, fortunately for Michel Barnier, his children are 60 years old. But under Elisabeth Borne, Matignon Uberized its crèche. I dare not imagine the reception conditions. No budget to buy Tchoupi books, the kids read those of Marlène Schiappa. The damage that this causes in the long term…
To take care of the most vulnerable, we cannot trust the private sector. Whether it is the elderly entrusted to Orpea, babies entrusted to People & Baby, or ministers entrusted to McKinsey. But hey, I imagine that if there are so many private daycare centers, it is because of the many hours of modeling clay classes that are not replaced in public daycare centers.
But private schools have to be profitable. It gives kids a taste of the working world. “Hey Timéo, your salt dough was supposed to be cooked by 4 p.m.… It’s 5 p.m. and the oven is running empty. That’ll be on your snack.” From early childhood, we taste the joys of neo-liberalism! “Come on, it’s nap time. Yesterday we read Tom Thumb, today we’re going to discover the fabulous story of Steve Jobs.”
The nursery scandal is a bit technical with stories of misappropriated public funding, tax optimization, real estate assets… In order not to dirty its white collar, delinquency now wears a bib. The director of the People & Baby group is described as a sort of “Bernard Tapie of nurseries”, or a “Bernard Tapie of awakening” if you prefer…” (Yessss oh the subject is stressful, it’s important to laugh too.)
And we also learn in Victor Castanet’s book that the spokesperson for the nursery lobby concluded a “non-aggression pact” with the Minister of the Family, Aurore Bergé… and that is very surprising. Who is unconscious enough to make a pact with Aurore Bergé when we know her political background? Now at the Ministry of the Family, they no longer ask for checks to be carried out in daycare centers and nursing homes, they say to themselves:“Well, we’ll wait for Victor Castanet to publish a book and we’ll see what’s wrong.”
The journalist hurts dishonest private companies. He looks like a member of parliament, but with power. I imagine that the release of this investigative book, “The Ogres”, will shake up a lot of things. Now parents of young children will say to themselves:
– Honey!! I have great news!!! Our request for a place in a private daycare has been refused!
