Wednesday letters: Education, democracy, energy and childcare

Wednesday letters: Education, democracy, energy and childcare

Childcare access shouldn’t depend on luck When I learned I was pregnant with my first child, I called every childcare provider I could find and got on every list in our community. I soon learned that, at six weeks pregnant, I was too late — there were hundreds of families ahead of me in line. One place told me there was a three-year waitlist for their infant room. I would have had to get on these waitlists before I was pregnant, before I was mar…