To the lady who owns the pre-school.I have sympathy at the worries you have, but some parts of your comment are very disturbing as the way you described you provided quality preschool to the people who mattered,the people who could afford to pay high preschool costs you mean.That sounds terribly greedy.
In scotland were my brother lives with his family all preschool is mandatory and free to every child rich or poor and they all get the same quality of childcare and early education.
You should see this as a blessing as with more redundancies and job losses even those in higher paid jobs are going to be effected and this may lead to an empty preschool for you and a full preschool for they less greedy run preschools, this country has ripped off the people for to long and its now coming to a standstill. The only problem i see with this new system is the fact that barry andrews has described that some activities such as food or outings will be optional for parents, in other words the more well off children will go on outings that require extra fees or eat food provided by the preschool while the others will miss out, this is still a difference in standerds of early childcare education and in itself is more damaging to children as they will notice the difference, feel it and wonder why they dont do all the fun things other children are doing at least if they didnt go due to lack of money at home they wouldnt no the difference.Being different to everybody else is the worst way to damage a childs self esteem there for damaging there confidence and there for there ability to concentrate and learn.
surely anybody can see this.
As a mother of a 7 year old i see this in her school and its heartbreaking.some children dont go on the yearly school tour as theres just no money at home. some dont have there books as even with the help of the back to school allowence its just not enough to cover the books and uniform and all the extras.
this needs to be reviewed again before implemented.
I done early childcare education F E T A C level 5 which is a course set out by the government to ensure childcare standards for irelands children so maybe the people setting this and any thing else involving childrens living standards should do this course too other wise whats the point.
mandy kelly
Posted on 19 Jun 2009 11:59 pm
To the lady who owns the pre-school.I have sympathy at the worries you have, but some parts of your comment are very disturbing as the way you described you provided quality preschool to the people who mattered,the people who could afford to pay high preschool costs you mean.That sounds terribly greedy.
In scotland were my brother lives with his family all preschool is mandatory and free to every child rich or poor and they all get the same quality of childcare and early education.
You should see this as a blessing as with more redundancies and job losses even those in higher paid jobs are going to be effected and this may lead to an empty preschool for you and a full preschool for they less greedy run preschools, this country has ripped off the people for to long and its now coming to a standstill. The only problem i see with this new system is the fact that barry andrews has described that some activities such as food or outings will be optional for parents, in other words the more well off children will go on outings that require extra fees or eat food provided by the preschool while the others will miss out, this is still a difference in standerds of early childcare education and in itself is more damaging to children as they will notice the difference, feel it and wonder why they dont do all the fun things other children are doing at least if they didnt go due to lack of money at home they wouldnt no the difference.Being different to everybody else is the worst way to damage a childs self esteem there for damaging there confidence and there for there ability to concentrate and learn.
surely anybody can see this.
As a mother of a 7 year old i see this in her school and its heartbreaking.some children dont go on the yearly school tour as theres just no money at home. some dont have there books as even with the help of the back to school allowence its just not enough to cover the books and uniform and all the extras.
this needs to be reviewed again before implemented.
I done early childcare education F E T A C level 5 which is a course set out by the government to ensure childcare standards for irelands children so maybe the people setting this and any thing else involving childrens living standards should do this course too other wise whats the point.