Our K teacher likes this proposal. While she will have 26 kids
in her class, that is only 26 all week, rather than the 40 she
has now. She says fewer reports, parents etc. will make her
life easier. She is an experienced K teacher.

I am curious what others think?

> 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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