Quality Programs for All Children

My personal perspective is that a majority of individuals want quality services for children in early care and education. The current public opinion includes proper regulation such as providing childcare workers with an opportunity to achieve licensure that involves the correct training. In addition, I believe that many people feel the childcare and education should be affordable for families regardless of economic status. The indicators that influence my thinking have to do with community members and parents asking for changes in the system. When you work in education there are many indicators to suggest that certain aspect of the system needs to change. For example, quality childcare centers are a serious concern for me. I have seen many centers that are nothing but a babysitting service. Very little is done to train individuals how to properly care for children.

I hope over the next five years there will be real changes in some of these centers with strict regulations. Many centers for example employ high school students who lack any training. I really hope the state start to crack down on centers that regularly employ young people without sufficient experience. In some cases many teenagers are working without proper training in CPR and this can lead to serious problems if anything goes terrible wrong while children are in their care. Furthermore, education is about learning and everyone involve should be about learning new ways to improve system.

I hope some of these changes will allow all parties involve understanding helping children to become social active participants in society should be the ultimate goal. Child care is not just an environment to put children in hopes that someone will just watch them for a few hours. Great child care is about providing the best services that will allow children to grow emotionally and physically. If these changes are not implemented on a national level then the ultimate result will be children continuing not to receive proper care.