An Early Childhood Education teacher is pleading to the Ministry of Education to think of them and provide them with staff quarters where they are being posted because it affects the quality of education they provide for children.
While pleading to the Ministry during the consultation on the review of the Education Act 1966 in Lautoka, the teacher says in her experience with all the schools that she has been to, no quarters were provided for them, even though the Education Ministry chose them to go to certain schools.
She says even when they stay there for long periods, such as more than 5 years, still no quarters are provided to them.
She is calling on the government to assist them.
The teacher, who has been an ECE teacher for 19 years, also raised the need to review the ECE curriculum because jolly phonics is very hard for the students to understand.
She says the only curriculum that the teachers know is the Mataniciva, but it's sad to know, too, that they are told to use jolly phonics.
She also responded to a parent who had earlier said during the consultation that there is no love from teachers, saying that sometimes even her children complain that she spends more time with her students than them.
She says she is almost getting sick every now and then because she is giving extra time to her students.
She adds some of their students are not even potty trained, and they as teachers have to humble themselves.
