Only the biggest matter Child Develoment Club has first ever film screening

MAJA LOSINSKA Reporter @RoundupNews

There were few dry eyes in the room during the screening of “No Small Matter” on Wednesday night.

Child Development Club showed their first film screening, bringing more than 50 students. Pierce College was one of the first community colleges to present the flm to their students.

The feature-length documentary film explains the importance of high quality early care and education along with an engagement campaign to inspire, teach and reinforce.

Chair of Child Development

Patricia Doelitzsch, who led the discussion after the film, emphasized on the teachers impact on children and the potential of early education.

“I wasn’t surprised,” Doelitzsch said. “I was crying myself but I got it together when the lights came on. It was just reinforcing for everybody to hear that they’re not by themselves and I think you can feel that when all of the sudden the advocacy kicked in how powerful that is.”

Doelitzsch talked about the impact of preschool teachers providing children with a solid foundation.

“It’s really hard to be in this position and in this department looking at this group of mostly ladies and gentlemen and saying that’s just going to be a struggle to support yourself,” Doelitzsch said. “So then, it has to come from the heart and it has to come from that desire to be the piece of change, to be that person to make that change happen.”