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2022-08-07T21:13:14.300Z


200 parents in the Ashkelon Regional Council reported the lack of a framework for early childhood education • This difficulty is combined with the security situation, which makes it even more difficult to find personnel in general and quality personnel in particular


Many facilities have informed parents that they will not open the dormitories on September 1st.

A critical lack of manpower does not allow, to their great regret, to open the year.

It is not just about the private kindergarten system - the messages also come from the women's organizations, which have been operating these frameworks since the establishment of the state, since the day care centers were established to enable and encourage women's employment.

Over the years, the demand increased, and thus private frameworks arose which became a business for everything.

75% of Israeli children were until 2018 in unsupervised and unregulated settings.

Thanks to the legislation passed in January 2021, private facilities began to close due to the need for staff training (220 hours), the buildings' non-standards, and more.

So far, more than 600 frames have been closed, and the hand is still tilted.

The manpower shortage is especially severe in the peripheral areas and in the south of the country.

200 parents in the Ashkelon Regional Council reported the lack of a framework for early childhood education. This difficulty is combined with the security situation, which makes it even more difficult to find personnel in general and quality personnel in particular. Several steps can be taken in the short and long term that will reduce the damage: support and assistance to parents, including assistance Money for those who have been financially harmed; affordable psychological support for parents; workshops to reduce anxiety; dissemination of information on emergency procedures; giving tools to parents and staff and more.

As part of the State Comptroller's report on the subject, a letter from 2019 was presented on behalf of the eight largest operating organizations, in which this dismal situation emerges: 50% of the female workers in the supervised dormitories (with a symbol) leave during their first year of work, and this causes a significant staff turnover. This collapse is growing On fertile ground, when the teams became the sheg of a spoiled policy with criminal neglect of early childhood.

The lawlessness of years and turning a blind eye to the importance of education in general and early childhood in particular, the erosion of education and the status of the educator in particular.

When today's national heroes are stars of reality shows - education is pushed to the margins, and this is the result.

The new reality could lead to a crisis in the economy and critical harm to babies.

Therefore, it is necessary to switch to an immediate emergency format in the areas of early childhood, which will be based on the following steps:

The state must place babies between the ages of birth and 3 as a national priority, both in terms of education and employment.

The child born today is the citizen of tomorrow, and we must do everything to create proper frameworks with significant adults for him.

Also, we must raise the salary, continue the training that started this year as part of the transition to the Ministry of Education, create benefits and grants for the best organizations and frameworks that will manage to keep a talented team for more than two years.

To give prestige and national pride to those who join the world of education from birth instead of being a "punching bag", which is where today's female educators are found, thus creating prestige for the profession.

The incessant rounds of elections cut huge sums from the state budget.

Since 2019, it has been about NIS 14 billion (not including the current system).

Half of the amount would transform the education branch from the ground up, and rehabilitate it.

The moment has come to stop and realize that our priorities have gone wrong.

The children of today, the voters of tomorrow, need us more than ever.

If the ministries of finance and education do not wake up, it may be too late for the children.

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Source: israelhayom

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