Hispanic Social Injustice Essay

The lack of early childhood education in the Hispanic community is a colossal social injustice. Early childhood education resources, including head starts, preschool programs, and high-quality childcare are difficult to find and become a part of in Hispanic communities. This social injustice affects individuals (micro level), Families (mezzo level), and the Hispanic Society of America (macro level). Due to the ample economic growth of the Hispanic population the United States has begun looking more seriously into early childhood education. “Hispanics have become the largest and fastest-growing racial/ethnic minority in the United States. “Hispanics accounted for about one-half of the net population growth of 9.4 million over the period and

I took a position in childcare licensing for the department of human services. Through their multiple and extensive training in early childhood education, I began to realize how important this issue truly is and how many Hispanic people will not receive these services. For the majority of us, myself included we are lead to believe that education for children does not begin until the child starts kindergarten. The fact of the matter is early childhood education is key to a child’s success in kindergarten and beyond. I believe this is a huge deficit in the Hispanic community as most of their young children usually stay home with a parent or a relative until they can go to kindergarten. Putting them at risk and at more of a disadvantage than other children who received early educational services from birth. Correlative strategies assist and promote parent involvement during their children 's school attendance. In fact, parent involvement is frequently the only common denominator among successful education programs for all children.” (Blakes-Greenway, 1994). This knowledge and persuasion needs to become more widespread through this new

Children’s development, including their brain development, and the differences, both physically and emotionally that, children go through when transitioning into kindergarten. Reviews of different forms have evidence concluding that these programs have short, medium, and long-term benefits that suggest the effects are often greater for more disadvantaged children. “Some of the evidence from model research has produced exciting results in terms of improving educational attainment and earnings and reducing welfare dependency and crime.” (Currie, 2001). “To the point where cost-benefit analysis of these programs suggests they would eventually pay for themselves in terms of cost-savings to the government if it produced even a quarter of the long-term gains of model programs.” (Currie, 2001). This is one of the reasons the government has been pouring an abundance of money into these programs, in fact, Obama just recently announced a one billion dollar investment in early childhood education. “Obama said that less than one-third of 4-year-olds enrolled in preschool and blamed the high cost of these programs for essentially shutting off access to poorer infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. “ (Obama announces $1 billion investment, 2015, p. 1). “He said studies repeatedly show that children who are educated early in life are more likely to