Spent the morning being gesticulated at with a rubber brain. Who knew Maine’s Attorney General had an extra?
Well he does and he has put it to fine use. Maine Attorney General, Steve Rowe is out stumping for the brains of wee ones. Citing the incredible figure that 85% of brain development occurs by the age of three (90% by age 6), he made the case that it made good economic (if not moral) sense to support early childhood development.
He showed a brilliant graph of educator salaries laid over the arch of brain development. A college professor making an average of $60K serves us at our time of lowest brain growth while early childhood educators make an average of $16K in the most crucial time in our development. Doesn’t take a brain surgeon to see something wrong here.
I was stunned and ecstatic to hear Barack Obama also voicing anger over the the abysmal salaries of early childhood educators in his Zero to Five plan.
Dare we hope that we will stop leaving so many children behind??
