I don't think we will see much happen this Sept. I read that
YRDSB plans on having 20 full day K classes. Schools that are
full like yours and mine, Valerie, will not be considered
likely for 4 or 5 years.
Time will tell.

On 10/31/09, valerie wrote:
> 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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