This week, eight daycare centers across the country were closed.
Yes.
Need to read it slowly.
More and more dormitories are closing.
From the center and the periphery, owned by private organizations and owned by public organizations.
In Kiryat Ata and Petah Tikva, Carmiel and Rehovot, Kiryat Shmona and Or Akiva.
And this is just the beginning.
None of the early childhood educators would be surprised if more and more dormitories close soon.
It seems that the state's response to the state of early childhood education is a decade behind, and at this rate, the dormitory operators will be left with only to turn off the light at the last daycare center and go home.
The great distress, first and foremost, is the manpower distress.
No facts.
And when this is the case, the principals are in a hurry to recruit available staff who are often unfit, unaware of the burden and responsibilities of those involved in the profession, which is what accelerates the closure of the residence.
In 2018, the Dormitory Supervision Law was enacted, and at the beginning of 2021, regulations (details of the law, such as training hours) were established.
Law enforcement has only just begun, but when it comes to vocational training - almost nothing has changed.
The training has not yet begun, and the status of the educators to change infants (the caregivers in the daycare center) is very bad.
The reality has been complex for years, but we have reached the limit of our capacity, and the manpower shortage is unimaginable.
Control and supervision are important, but they are not the point.
In the absence of caregivers, entire daycare classes close and many buildings are left empty.
The operators of the early childhood frameworks, both public and non-profit organizations such as WIZO, Naamat and Emuna, and private organizations - report distress that they have not known in the past.
In a recent campaign, the secretary general of the Teachers' Union, Yaffa Ben-David, warns that "Israel is drying up" and refers to a large shortage that is expected in kindergarten teachers as early as September. Unbound does not really have the power to shake the country, or he does not use the power he has to do so.If Ben-David had checked the situation with education workers from birth to age 3, she would have found that in this place we are already in a severe, even very severe drought.
The only way to deal with the crisis is to build a national program for early childhood education.
An example of this is the "give 5" program to increase the number of students in 5 units of mathematics.
If we turn around and understand that without early childhood educators the system will collapse and our children will suffer, we will be able to turn the pyramid around and allocate appropriate resources for early childhood, both pedagogically and in the salaries of kindergarten teachers and assistants.
In this way, we will create prestige for the profession, and establish a proper status and call for a mission for those involved in early childhood education.
Right now, the opposite is true.
Every year there is a big drop in enrollment in early childhood education colleges, there are no proper scholarships and no encouragement, both from the MLAG and the government. .
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