Report Unfair to nursery nurses.

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by: the-voice-of-reason

Hi Hardworkin,

Glad to see things are looking up and I hope you have completed, or nearly completed, your Early Childhood Studies degree.

I have found this an interesting message post to watch as my daughter wants to be a primary school teacher, with a specialism in Early Years. The degree she hopes to study is the Primary Teaching degree and there are two courses of entry, academic A levels or a level 3 childcare qualification (passed with the appropriate grades). She received much advice about the 'best' way to proceed when applying for college courses and her school tried to push her into academic A levels as she is very bright and gained 11 GCSEs with the majority of grades at A*, A and B.

I am glad to say she is currently studying for the BTEC in Early Years, which I feel will give her the very best start in her teaching career. She will actually learn about child development, childcare theories and, most importantly of all, real children. She is currently on placement in a primary school, working alongside a very supportive teacher in KS1 and will start in the reception unit after Easter.

Unfortunately, I know from experience that there are some (not all) teachers out there who have no experience of young children and how they learn and do not appreciate the hard work, dedication and sheer sweat that goes onto achieving a level 3 childcare qualification. Some schools still push underachieving girls and girls who don't know what they want to do after school into childcare courses as an 'easy option'. And unfortunately, nursery nurses are still seen by some other professionals as the bottom of the pile (see post from clhorne).

And as the title of the post states this is 'Unfair to nursery nurses'.

I hope from my daughter's experiences in working towards her goal, she will not fall into this trap. I for one won't let her!

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