Recently, our school/facility had a bad experience with an enrichment program provider. How would hiring a NETA certified enrichment program provider be any better or different?
Non-certified enrichment program providers who engage in misconduct or fail to live up to their obligations retreat behind a veil of anonymity simply because they can. While your experience is not the norm for enrichment, it does call attention to a serious problem – the lack of a system of oversight to which program providers can be held accountable and which safeguards the interests of the public. Certification is a critical element to addressing this issue. Certification makes a program provider answerable for their conduct, the fair and equitable treatment of children, the issuance of criminal background checks to enrichment teachers, the resources to sustain long term business operations, curriculum analysis, etc. and provides a mechanism where performance can be documented.
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