PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Sharon Brown, Member of the Public
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3 min
Sharon Brown, a former early childhood care worker, shares her perspective on the city's decision not to renew some childcare program leases. She argues that these programs should be more focused on educational and spiritual content, including prayer and Bible studies, to truly benefit children and justify their continuation.
- Brown suggests that easily cut programs may not be performing at a level where they are truly needed or irreplaceable.
- She emphasizes the need for childcare programs to "exceed and excel" beyond the norm to be considered essential.
- While acknowledging the importance of childcare for preventing parental homelessness and joblessness, Brown argues that programs should offer something special to distinguish themselves.
Sharon Brown
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Hello.
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My name is Sharon Brown.
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And before I start, remember Israel, defend Israel, release the hostages, let Yahweh's people go.
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I worked in early childhood care for a little while, I've been in many different industries.
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The city is not renewing some of them and they may have a reason why they do not.
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When I was working in the fields, I didn't see the things that the children were learning during that time was beneficial to them.
2:51:54
We are going to be instituting the bible back in schools and different things like that and we want it back in the early childcare forum also, prayer and different things like that and bible Judaism and Christianity.
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But we do want the government to the city to extend the leases but they have to also offer the things that the children need like prayer and bible and things that make them excel.
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We don't just want them in programs where they're killing time, you know, they're little so they don't know to say, hey, we should be we can play too, but we should be learning things that put us ahead.
2:52:40
We can have fun, yes, but these programs if they're so easily axable, why is that?
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Are they detrimental only because they won't have childcare, meaning someone to babysit, they can find reputable people to babysit.
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What is so special about these programs, these childcare programs that the city has to have it?
2:53:06
You know, at first I was gonna say, yeah, you know, why cut the programs?
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And that's true, but they also have to be excellent that the city would say we can't dare cut them because they're so excellent.
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When the children get out of these programs, they go on to excel and exceed.
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So yes, we want to make sure that parents don't experience homelessness and joblessness because they can't find childcare, but these programs have to exceed and excel the things that we're used to the norm.
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So I would submit that if they're so easily axible then they are not performing at such a level where they are needed.
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They're needed by the city where the city says this is too important to cut, or they say there's trillions of them out there and we can just find they can just find some other ones.
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Like they can go down the block to the other child care center.
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Like if they're all the same and they don't have something special about them to make them stand out.
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So at this point whoever is represented should go back into their and make them Thank you.
Rita Joseph
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Thank you.