In the classroom of 2-3 year olds I have been supporting three children with special needs. Today I have received word that I will lose a child that I have been working with for the last three weeks. This loss is due to the fact that there's a lack of financial support for the parents of this particular child. Unfortunately, I am not working in a very stable area and the **school itself is a diamond in a rough, so to speak. (I can't imagine how much a bran new school would cost parents) The news is quite sad for both the parents and I. Asides from the fact that I will lose more than half my pay cut their child needs nuturing in every sense of the word. Now the child will no longer have proper education for an entire month. I know that may seem unjustified at the moment, but to futher explain. A child should not have this much time off, especially if there is no edcuation being done at home. This happens far too often I'm afraid. If I could only explain to the parents and to the administration department how much progress he has made in a months time as oppose to where he was when we originally started they would do anything in their right mind to have him stay. F*&K the corporate world! Why does education, especially this early in life should have to suffer because they don't have access to proper education.
A month of absence is sacrificial in this stage of life, and I have been working quite diligently with this child- now it has all gone to waste. This child will regress to his original state to when I had first met him, if not further more. I am not trying to sound like a Martyr, but this child knows me and really listens to me, as I have . When you're curious about something you begin to see the light, or when you're curious about someone's behaviour most of the time they recognize it. It's all you need is that small string of hope- once they recognize that you have curiosity about them that is the key. From that point on you just observe and follow through. Although my job is not lost, for I still have two of the three children I support. However, it's murder! I have no other way of getting more work to fill the afternoons and I am barely making ends meet to pay rent, let alone utilities or food.
What has the world come to? What does this Agency really expect from me?
Duly noted: support staff and nursery nurse assistance are not well to do people, and they all say they do it for the children. It's true, but at the end of the day you have to see where you stand and how it affects your life in the bigger picture. I need to survive on my own, and create a comfortable life for myself.
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** The school is newly built since November of 2007. They spent 6.5million on building it.Although the school is esthetically pleasing there are so many downfalls to it. First, the windows are automated- meaning if the temperature is too hot the windows open. Even when the school is not open- ie a holiday. This leaves room for perpetrators to figure out a way to climb the roof tops and jam the windows open and steel computers. As they did- three of them to be exact. Also, the lighting fixtures are overly priced to replace and are not replaced on a regular basis because of this dilemma. These are merely the insignificant qualms that the school has. Of course the common political background that is further perpetuated by the school principal, the school is separate from the nursery. The nursery nurses are looked down upon; furthermore so are the agency workers- especially if they are not British.
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