All-day kindergarten pondered
Comox Valley Record
By Lindsay Chung
October 20, 2009

School District 71 could potentially offer all-day kindergarten in nine schools next year.

Mary-Ann McCrea, the district’s director of instruction, student services, provided an initial look to trustees last week at how all-day kindergarten could work in the district.

…. The ministry has provided guidelines listing reaching vulnerable students, using available space, not displacing existing programs and preserving current full-day programming as priorities, explained McCrea.

The government is aiming for half of the kindergarten children in the province having access to this service next school year but not necessarily half of the students in every district, she noted….

Many questions still need to be answered, such as whether there would be one teacher per class or two, and if there would be a minimum number of students and what that number would be, explained McCrea….