Submission #2383

Hi, I am a former Early Childhood Educator and now send my children to an EYC in PEI. I am coming to you to consider how important it is to have our Pedagogy support staff in the EYC’s. As a former ECE, we would have benefitted from this greatly when I was in the field 10 years ago. As I’ve seen first hand the huge demand and extra help that was needed on the floor to care for the children. We have been extremely grateful up until funding was cut to allow for this, and we please ask for you to reconsider this decision by keeping these essential employees on the floor to help with the demand of many needs within the centres. As a now parent and seeing the high needs that many of these children have and the curriculum that is needing to be met, it can only work by having those support staff on hand to be successful in tending to the developmental needs of the children and prevent burnout amongst the staff.