As a former K teacher, I agree that reporting on less
students is a plus.

Also with the provincial deficit, I doubt the cap for primary
will stay anyway and we will all be looking at classes with
more kids.

McGuinty campaigned on being the education premier and he has
to come through on the promise before the next election, at
least in the planning stage.

In the end, who knows. McGuinty could be voted out, as
Ontarians aren't too pleased with deficit, and we could very
well be back to significant cuts in education.

Looking at 26 kids in K may be the least of the issues on the
horizon.

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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