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.
As a parent of a pre-schooler, I have witnessed the benefits of pre-K! My daughter is part of an awesome program and it is a shame that the program has often been threatened by "lack of funds" and/or "lack of support".
ReplyDeleteThis is true! I think that those who don't know anything about Preschool seem to be the ones who have all the power. It is a shame because there are soooo many benifits. They just think that the children play, eat and sleep! I told another person that their views and ideas may change if they were to visit and local Pre-K classroom.
DeleteMany pople take Pre-K for granted. I recall when my daughter was starting school, I was surprised that not all public schools had Pre-K classes. It was explained to me that most were located in low income or low performing school zones. That's fine but I believe all children can benefit greatly from Pre-K education.
ReplyDeleteYes I do agree that alot of people take it for granted. Those people do not realize the benifits and potential aspect of it. It is sad that all publice schools do not have Pre-K classes. The children can gain so much from it such: as modeling older children, learning classroom management, follow directions/routines, but most importantly obtaining an education!
ReplyDeletePrek is very important to have. But I feel some parents abuse the system. I work for a agency that give free child care. I feel thAt some of our parents abuses the system because there are families on a waiting list waiting to have their child be apart of the program but they can not because of other families who have the funding themselves to send their child to a school that they can pay for rather than abuse the system where it is federally funded
ReplyDeleteGood point! There is always somebody in any type of category/situations that abuse the system(s). The people in charge of these programs need to come up with a better system to know who is abusing it! That really makes it hard for others who are in need of assistance.
ReplyDeleteAs they say--money is the root of all evil. The evil that I speak of here is the fact that students are being deprived of the valuable resources that are needed in order to be successful in the educational journey. I, too, am a teacher and fully understand all of your issues. When are people (the government) going to learn that classrooms don't run on the minimal salaries that teacher make, but I guess the method of robbing Peter to pay Paul will have surfice until changes are made.
ReplyDeleteI like how you worded your statement! As far as the salary, it's terrible that they have not given us a RAISE IN YEARS! Yet you see and hear about all these corporate companies making high salaries and are given money in addition to their salaries. Educators do not get any respect!!
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