Norway does this. Kindergartens are nearly free ($120/mo), but with a "cash-for-care" benefit for parents who choose to stay at home with the child ($750/mo).

https://www.nav.no/kontantstotte/en

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magicalist 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

> You can receive cash-for-care benefit for children between 13 and 19 months, starting the month the child turns 13 months, up until and including the month the child turns 19 months. You can receive cash-for-care benefits for a maximum of 7 months.

so, no, extremely limited compared to what's being discussed.

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SilverElfin 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I wonder why they don’t have the same allergy to a voucher program that is prevalent in the US on the political left. For some reason, letting people exercise their agency and do things their own way is seen as a threat here.

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OkayPhysicist 2 days ago | parent [-]

It's not an allergy to vouchers. It's an allergy to diverting tax payer dollars away from public schools and into subsidizing religious indoctrination centers. There are good religious schools: I've been largely impressed by the Jesuit-run schools I've seen. But most religious private primary and high schools in the US are run by weird little cults that fundamentally fail to meet muster in the whole "not being thinly-veiled excuses for indoctrination" side of things.

Americans are stupid enough without stripping them of what little education we do offer them.

	▲	SilverElfin 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> It's an allergy to diverting tax payer dollars away from public schools and into subsidizing religious indoctrination centers. All schools are indoctrination centers. Some very progressive cities push a lot of political programming into their curriculums. Why does it matter if someone wants their child’s education to have THEIR flavor of religious indoctrination? The money follows the child. The money for kids staying in public schools stays with them. So it doesn’t divert anything away.