Poll Results - Your Voice! What Are Your Thoughts on Deregulation

Our readers had a LOT to say about last week's poll about deregulation. Check out the results and reader feedback below!!

“Early Childhood Education is so important to children, and we must protect them by having rules and regulations in place. I understand it is expensive. We should offer more public funding for Early Childhood Centers.”

“Degulation is not going to make the ECE industry more affordable it will simply make it more unsafe then it already is for children and families. If anything more funding should go to this vital time in child's lives to better educate the field, support working families and boost outcomes for young children. ”

“Right now, I spend more time doing paperwork to satisfy state regulations then I spend with the children. It should not be that way. ”

“Former preschool teacher, current infant parent using daycare: Safety is necessary with higher ratios, but staff shouldn't have to take more annual professional development than medical staff. Staff deserve to be paid a living wage, and parents deserve to not be afraid of going broke or going under because they are so financially tight. Some regulations only benefit administrators, government staff, politicians, and some opportunistic "non-profits." Also, more than ever, the classroom populations have children with significant trauma and difficult behavioral or development challenges, which makes the work a struggle at times for staff and raises concerns for other children's parents.”

“I think that some regulations, specifically regulations regarding ratios, should be changed, but not necessarily eliminated. For example, in my state, infant ratios are 4:1, toddler ratios 6:1, 3 year old ratios 10:1, and 4-5 year old ratios are 12:1. In my center, I make sure that my staff have the tools and experience needed to do their jobs satisfactorily, therefore my toddler-prekindergarten staff could easily handle a couple more kids, if ratios would allow it, however I think overall our state has a reasonable ratio regulation for infants. That would allow me to either enroll additional kiddos or keep staffing and payroll lower. Additionally, we have to manage ratios even during naptime when all the children are asleep. I would like to see that changed, or eliminated, so I can keep staffing costs down during that 2 hour period when the children are asleep.”

37% answered "depends - some regulations should go, others must stay" this was the leading vote getter!!

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