How despite how these early childhood educators go through the same amounts of training (if not more), get certified through the exams, internships, etc., etc., etc., but they're still not, protected by the labor laws, because the labor laws only "cover" the primary, the secondary educators of first through twelfth grade, and if all the early childhood educators start walking out, like the pilots, the flight attendants had done before, what will happen? Will they finally get equal pay with the school teachers from elementary to high school then??? This is, how this group of formal instructors get ABUSED by the systems! Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
On august 3rd, all members of the early childhood educators gathered underneath the scorching heat at the Department of Education, longed to make the workers' unfair and unreasonable treatments known to the Department of Education, but, the response they'd received, was as usual, with a total disregard of the asking of the early childhood educators, truly, upsetting! During the time, there were the words of blame, and attack on these, early childhood educators, it'd hurt this group of hard working men and women, repeatedly. Actually, all we wanted, is a more reasonable and fairer treatment.
First, doing away with the thirty-minute breaks every four hours worked. We are interacting with a classroom full of active young children, and yet, the National Education Agency used the labor laws to reinforce our means of work, and so, we are forced to take thirty-minutes off for every four hours we taught in the classrooms. But, who can feel safe and sound, if the instructors leave the classroom to take their breaks for thirty minutes, leaving the young children, unattended to? Some proposed, that during nap hour, the classrooms only needed one instructor watching the class, but who CAN, guarantee that during the nap times, every child will, sleep, that there would be, no problems at all?
the National Early Childhood Educator Guild at a seminar, they'd MARCHED for EQUAL rights as the school instructors primary and secondary school years...photo from online
The following is real-time from my working as an early childhood educator. One day at nap, it seemed, that everybody is, fast asleep, but, all of a sudden, one of my students started, convulsing, and foamed at the mouth; two teachers found him, and immediately, worked together, one teacher stayed to watch the child, the other immediately contacted the office, the ambulance, as well as the child's, parents, and accompanied the child to the hospital, stayed until the parents finally arrived, and, I still remembered how worried I was of this child. And, if this incident happened, when there's only one teacher staffed in the classroom setting, will the time to emergently rescue the child be lost? How would it affect other students in the, class?
Secondly, evaluating the rewards systems and offer the instructors a better way to file in the complaints. The early childhood educators who'd been certified, are evaluated three times annually, and every time the evaluations came, we'd all walked on, eggshells, because if the results weren't as we'd expected, we have, no means of filing for a reevaluation. And, even IF we'd passed the evaluations, there's still, NO guarantees of any extra bonuses in money to affirm the hard work we'd put in for the entire, year. And, looking at the teachers of elementary school and up, they too, needed to be, evaluated, but, once they'd passed the evaluations, they get a raise, and they have a better passage to file in the complaints, that they don't need to worry about, being unfairly, treated.
a video on the difference of the status of "early childhood educator" and "early childhood caretaker"...from YouTube
Third, the work experience from before working as an early childhood educators should be taken into consideration, and the teaching certifications should be given to the early childhood educators, the instructors, as well as the surrogate teachers, because they are all, educator, so why is it, that only the early childhood educators' work experiences are discontinued? Most of the early childhood educators had prior experiences in working in the field, they may have taught in the public preschools, or the private preschools, and most of us have teaching certifications, but, that's overlooked and discounted; to the point of how if we were to transfer to another workplace, the experience of work from our previous schools, aren't counted, because we are, merely, entry level teachers, based off of the fundamental laborer law. The National Education Department only noted the rights of the instructors, the surrogate instructors, while totally disregarding the rights of the early childhood educators'.
Fourth, DO take seriously the complaints we made of unfair treatments in the workplace. In the public preschool systems, we are always, shorter, with the work title of "early childhood caretakers". The early childhood caretakers and the school instructors, the surrogate instructors, we all graduated from the same teachers' colleges, but the rights we have, the pays, are never as high as theirs.
In the beginning, the positions of early childhood caretakers came into being, for the sake of saving the money, and now, the government came up with a gilded saying of, encouraging these educators to go for a formal teaching certificate, but the government, in the public childcare systems, created this, huge gap of pay differences. The early childhood educators passed the equal numbers of exams to get certified as all the school instructors of any levels, a stable workforce in the schools, just like the, teachers are; while the surrogate instructors, they're, hired by the individual schools on their, own, and with a much lower, qualifications guideline, so why doesn't the National Education Department see this? As an early childhood educator, I feel, so upset, the National Education Department need to take us all, early childhood educators' asking seriously, to STOP sacrificing us, under the systems.
So, this is the realm, of how unfair the treatments of these, professional educators happen, because they're nor "formal school instructors" from grade one to twelve, but they go through the exact same trainings, take the exact level of difficulty in their certification processes, and yet, they still, get the shorter end of, that stick, and the government needs to do something about this, because early childhood education, is the keystone to education in the grade school years, and yet, these hard working, formally CERTIFIED school INSTRUCTORS are being, treated as, EXPANDABLES, and maybe, it will take a STRIKE (like the flight attendants of China Airline from before!), to get their asking heard and, fulfilled…
