Description: ALARMED at the lack of early learning facilities in many member nations,
FULLY AWARE that children who attend early learning facilities are more likely to perform well at basic education facilities and to become productive, law-abiding citizens,
NOTING that in many nations there is unfulfilled demand among parents and guardians of young children for early learning facilities,
DEFINING early learning facilities as facilities following all of these requirements:
- (a) Facilities serving children too young for primary education, as determined by national custom,
- (b) Facilities in settings outside the home or family,
- (c) Facilities that educate through a mixture of learning through play and age-appropriate educational lessons,
- (d) Facilities focused on helping children develop in five key areas:
- (i) Social: forming attachments, creating relationships with, and cooperating with others,
- (ii) Physical: development of motor skills,
- (iii) Intellectual: learning to make sense of the physical world,
- (iv) Creative: development of talents in areas including music, art, reading, and mathematics,
- (v) Emotional: development of self-awareness, self-confidence, and the ability to cope with feelings,
SEEKING to provide every child access to an early learning facility, the General Assembly:
(1)
REQUIRES member nations to fulfill demand among parents and guardians for early learning facilities, by whatever means the individual member nation sees fit,
(2)
FURTHER REQUIRES that member nations regulate current and future early learning facilities so that they meet the definition laid out above,
(3)
CLARIFIES that this resolution does not require parents and guardians to send their children to early learning facilities,
(4)
INSTRUCTS the Global Initiative for Basic Education (a division of the WA General Accounting Office) to curate a registrar of member nations currently unable to economically support the requirements for early learning facilities laid out in this document;
(5)
COMMANDS the WA General Accounting Office to allocate and provide funds to the nations on this registrar to comply with this legislation, so long as the recipient nation used the funds solely to establish and support early learning facilities.
