APRIL 30 — As a career early childhood educator, reading the tragic news of four-year-old Thanes Nair drowning at an Ipoh preschool both saddened me and sent shivers down my...
APRIL 30 — As a career early childhood educator, reading the tragic news of four-year-old Thanes Nair drowning at an Ipoh preschool both saddened me and sent shivers down my spine. Losing a child is an incomparable trauma for any parent, even more painful when it’s a toddler. My heart aches for his grieving mother.
Thanes’ untimely death is symptomatic of the systemic rot in early childhood education in Malaysia, specifically in the private sector. Its origins are in the subtle, daily wrongs that have, over time, become business as usual. Case in point — the preschool under investigation now claims Thanes was autistic and his mother was remiss in her duty to inform them accordingly. So, if he was ‘normal’, so to speak, they would readily accept the blame for his drowning? Here’s a hard fact — a trained special needs teacher has the tools to identify an autistic child in a brief interaction.
Most preschool teachers are way overworked, underpaid, and underappreciated. Many of us never make a living wage and often the best and brightest quit the industry altogether.
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