Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 1/5/2007 4:27:00 PM Author: Subject: I do work for Head Start. at $18,000 a y... I do work for Head Start. at $18,000 a yr , summer's off, 2 yr degree and CDA. And how can someone in a day care center be a professional 'teacher' with very little experience (if any). Day cares in Ohio tend to hire moms or a lady to work with the babies. Babysitting, or raising your own kids count as experience. Some will hire you and just toss you in a class. The 'junk' teachers are well-meaning and believe they are doing a good job, but in truth they actually may be hindering a child's development. I do have kids that have little to nothing and sleep on the floor in a room with a broken window, and then I have other 'poor' kids that have homes filled with XBox, DVD's, grillz, personal TV's in their room, everything but school supplies (they make a mess). Public housing here means alot of 'poor' live better than those that can't get into public housing. It's disgusting. Kids that have Ho-ho's and a can of Pepsi for breakfast bought with food stamps. (they don't like the breakfast we serve). Our agency closed a small on-site center (two classes) in a housing project. why?? we did not provide transportation. really, parents said it was too much to take their child down to the center when they had younger kids in tow. Other centers had buses, why couldn't they get buses. I am talking walking maybe the length of a football field. So much for valuing a free education and two meals free a day. And we had difficulty getting them in for conferences and home visits. Other poor families were gracious, I think it is because they have little, and see Head Start as something that is positive and can help them. And we do try to help families get out of their situation and move on to better choices in life. An area high school has 2/3's of its high school girls with babies. All in day care paid by taxpayers. To pay for maternity benefits, drop alot of this welfare, child care, and housing and use that money to pay all moms. And pay for no more than two kids. Other countries do this, successfully and the cost is about what we already pay in social programs. Welfare is for the destitute. Asian countries pay parents a tax credit for being college educated. It seems here in Ohio we have created a breed of people who say "you owe me". we reward for mistakes (life choices) Many of the teen moms at the school were interviewed, the wanted a baby and mom said that was OK. these are as young as 14! Welfare was once a way to get back on your feet, today, it is a life experience by choice. I do believe some people are in the situation not by choice, and that is what programs are for. but for many here in Ohio (Cleveland NE Ohio, poverty capital of the USA), poor choices are rewarded handsomely. and now Ohio is talking about giving poor Ohioans an Earned Income tax credit like the federal program. So, instead of giving more money to the poor, why not to new moms of any income??? Name: Email: Subject

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