Money
Money is needed for the Pre-K Programs because they are low on funds or don’t have any funds. Classrooms need materials/supplies such as: construction paper, printer paper, ink, paints, books, pencils, manipulatives, tables, shelves chairs, and computers just to name a few. Pre-K Teachers express the need for these items and more year after year. At the end of each year teachers write down classroom inventory and what is needed. In the beginning of the school year teachers obtain some of these items. Other items may come from other Pre- K classrooms if they are not using them. Once some of the main supplies run out that is it, until next year! Some teachers that have classrooms in schools are some what fortunate to receive items that they need. Then again, some supplies are denied from schools. Teachers are told that they have to obtain them from their Pre-K Department.
The Exceptional Children’s (EC) Department is a department that serves children with disabilities. They are too in need of funds and a permanent place of resident. Even though they are housed at a public school at any time if the principal wants that space they have to move to another unknown location. All the EC Teachers and therapist are not in the same location. They are spread out throughout the county due to lack of space. They too run into the same situations with supplies. The difference is, is that once they run out they don’t have other alternatives besides coming out of pocket!
Support
-Support needs to come from:
-The Superintendant
-School Board Members
-County Commissioners
-Local NCAE (North Carolina Association of Educators)
-Parent Liaisons, to talk about the program and the upside to Preschool Education
-Voting for and not against
Proof of the benefits of Preschool
Preschool is the foundation for learning. Individuals need to grasp that Preschool is to prepare children for Kindergarten Rediness! That’s the whole need for Public Pre-K!! Preschool helps to develop fine and gross motor skills, cognitive social, physical, adaptive, and language skills. Educators help children to identify and learn letters, sounds, shapes, colors, numbers, cutting and the list goes on and on and on. Children can benefit too if they have never been away from home. Parents can benefit by seeing what they have to look forward to of their child’s 12 years of being in school. They can also benefit by parent involvement in their child’s education. What’s more, parents can become part of the school’s PTA and partake on other school functions.
