{"id":7791,"date":"2019-06-16T15:10:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T03:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oece.nz\/general\/news-for-early-childhood-education\/ece-teacher-pay-mass-meeting\/"},"modified":"2021-07-18T08:09:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T20:09:28","slug":"ece-teacher-pay-mass-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oece.nz\/public\/news-and-views\/stories\/ece-teacher-pay-mass-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass Meeting on ECE Teacher Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
There is to be an ECE Teacher Pay mass meeting on Sunday 14th July 3 – 5 pm in Wellington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Early childhood education has long been considered the Cinderella of the education sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Early childhood teachers in general are treated badly as the Cinderellas of the teaching workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The time to change this is now! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is time for the value of early childhood education to be recognised – starting with addressing issues of early childhood teacher pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We could keep waiting patiently for another year, 5, 10, or 20 years, hoping that maybe just maybe this will be achieved for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But for the sake of children and the safety and quality of ECE we need to take action NOW. We are seeing no improvements and the situation is getting worse. The vast majority of early childhood teachers are not state sector employees. They are not represented by the teacher’s union (NZEI). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Early childhood teachers are not babysitters. They are education professionals. This is the case in all teacher-led services, including home-based, kindergartens, hospital-based, and all centres. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n