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Speaker 1: This is gem Nation with Jonesy and man, let's get

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Speaker 1: on down to the Josy no matter of arms for

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Speaker 1: the pub test. New South Wales and Victoria to trial

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Speaker 1: an extra year of schooling, or as I like to say,

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Speaker 1: schoolan well, the.

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Speaker 2: School and is going to happen before you start school.

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Speaker 2: It's for four year olds. It's a year of schooling

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Speaker 2: five days a week. They're offering before kindergarten, so you'd

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Speaker 2: be four years old. They're trying to get this up

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Speaker 2: and running so that they're offering five days a week

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Speaker 2: for kids before twenty by twenty thirty, starting the trial

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Speaker 2: next year. I know there is a shortage of teachers

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Speaker 2: at the moment they're trying to address that, but the

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Speaker 2: idea being that this would save money on childcare, this

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Speaker 2: would get mums back into the workforce. But more importantly,

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Speaker 2: they're saying this wild help with that crucial transition to kindergarten.

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Speaker 2: It will be a game changer. They've said it's not

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Speaker 2: going to be strict schooling. It's play based learning. It's

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Speaker 2: not compulsory at this stage. So what do you think

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Speaker 2: New South Wales and Victoria trialing an extra year of

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Speaker 2: schooling does it pass the pub test.

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Speaker 3: No, they're just too small.

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Speaker 4: They're too young. It's obviously going to save parents a

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Speaker 4: load of money if you put the kids in day care.

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Speaker 4: I've had six kids and none of them went in

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Speaker 4: dok here they started I'm with me until they started school,

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Speaker 4: and I just think that even then they were too small,

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Speaker 4: So I think even younger.

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Speaker 3: Again, it's just too young.

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Speaker 5: Yes, it does. I think it's an excellent idea. I've

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Speaker 5: seen my own grandchildren struggle in first year going to

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Speaker 5: a big school, so if it helps to integrate them

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Speaker 5: into doing better and making friends, it can only be positive.

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Speaker 3: I'm a teacher, and I think it's great that they're

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Speaker 3: going to extend it. The more education, the better. The

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Speaker 3: only issue that I see with it is where are

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Speaker 3: they going to get their teachers from. We have trouble

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Speaker 3: finding casual relief teachers. I just don't see how they're

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Speaker 3: going to do it. So many people have left the profision.

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Speaker 6: Because the private school kids have been going the stage

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Speaker 6: is doing pre kate. This is kind of just getting

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Speaker 6: the povos up to speed with the private.

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Speaker 3: School kids, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Everyone has an opinion