Quality Programs for All Children

Today’s society takes early care and education very lightly.  It seems in my opinion that it is treated as more of a day care, especially preschool programs, rather than something that will help their children further their education.  Hopefully within the next 5 years, our society will realize programs such as Head Starts are there to help children and not babysit them.  Having volunteered in my local Head Start, I have seen how parents mistreat the program and use it to their benefit rather than their children’s.  They would drop the child off and run out of the door not taking any interest in their art work or what the teacher has to say.

I hope the opinion on early childhood education changes drastically.  People need to be aware of how important the programs are for the young children and how much they benefit from it.  By advocating to parents and the community, as professionals we should aim to show the importance of the programs and the other systems they coincide with.  Hopefully the change will show the public that children benefit long run from the services of early childhood education.  It will demonstrate that they are better prepared for school and are more successful in their lives. I imagine that the programs will strengthen their education with the young children.  They will implement more programs and a committee for the parent’s to attend to show them how important the programs truly are.