Early Childhood Educator's Rage On Wages
Typical daycare setting
If you think closely about early childhood educators, you may think it's no big deal. Many people question the difficulty of being a teacher for children ages ten months to six years of age because they assume all it takes is keeping the children busy, feeding them, changing diapers and ensuring their safety. But if if a profession like this is so easy, why did these educators have to go to post-secondary school to do what they do?
It's been proven that 85% of the brain is developed by the age of five years. If children aren't taught properly in their early years it is a fact that it could, in the future, lead to learning disabilities. It is known among early childhood educators that children who starts becoming involved in an educational setting will stay behind in their developmental growth. Children who start in daycare centers at an early age also learn how to improve their fine and gross motor skills, social skills and intellectual skills as well.
Thinking about it technically, we as early childhood educators, are stimulating the brains of the future generation. So is it any wonder that the fact that zoo keepers and 'parking police' are being paid more than the people shaping the future generation is infuriating these educators?
Many educators who have been in the business have made many attempts to raise awareness of the fact that daycare teachers are being paid the same amount as someone who did not have to go to school for as long and whose job isn't an important or crucial as educating our future generation.
In hopes that someday early childhood educators will be recognized for the hard work and extreme responsibility they hold, people have been trying as hard as possible to get the fact through to people - we are underrated.
