Barangay Day Care Centers: Emergence, Current Status and Implications to Teacher Education

In the last three decades, preschool education hadbecome a boom and a lucrative business in the country. Parents became aware of the value of early childhood education and itmotivated them to apportion part of their hard-earned money for their children’s pre-school education. The cost of sending a child to schoolrangedfrom as low as fifty pesos to as much as seven to eight thousand pesos per month.