I was the one who started that lengthy post in August about
full-day K. Things have definitely changed since then, but
I'm wondering what some people's opinions are around this.
The K teachers at my school are just 'floored' that because
the province can't afford to carry out this program
effectively, they're going to stick us with 26 kids in a
class. I don't care if there is an ECE in the classroom or
not, it's still 26 kids! My goodness, how is that good
early learning practice?? We don't have space for 26
little bodies! As much as I'd love to have an ECE to work
with in the classroom, when it comes right down to it, I'd
rather have 20 kids all day on my own. As it stands now,
we are overloaded with Kinders at my school (7 full-time
teachers, 280 kindergarten childen), so we are having to
use regular classrooms that have not been designed for
Kindergarten. One poor teacher can barely fit her 20 kids
in her room and run a centre based program. Any other
Kindergarten teachers out there with opinions on this?

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