Full-time kindergarten valuable
100 Mile House Free Press
By Joan Silver
November 03, 2009

… School Trustee Pattie Baker says children would benefit from more interaction with trained personnel and would get excited about learning, with more exposure to songs, stories, play centres with equipment, including pencils, pens and scissors as well as time in the gym.

“It will be good for kids and an opportunity for teachers. The district is taking a look at the cost and we hope when the ministry mandates something, they’ll fund it.”

The School District 27 trustee says if the district needsto increase kindergarten programming with no more money, the board would have to cut elsewhere and questions whether another program would have to suffer.

“We have the tools, we have the skills, but do we have the economic resources?”….

She says it would be “fabulous” for children to have full-day kindergarten because the more early learning experience they have the more successful they are in school….