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Thursday, May 22, 2014

FULL DAY KINDERGARTEN & OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM



Today's Waterloo Region Record carrys this article by Peter Shawn Taylor titled "Full-day kindergarten will deliver a lifetime of regrets". Mr. Taylor has four major complaints with this Liberal initiated program. Firstly it doesn't improve outcomes for the vast majority of children. Secondly it is prohibitively expensive and thirdly it punishes independent daycares. Finally and fourthly it it misdirects needed resources away from the province's most vulnerable children. Economist Don Drummond produced a report for the provincial government which among hundreds of recommendations to get their financial house in order stated that full-day kindergarten had to go. Well politically that wasn't on our "education" premier's agenda at all.

Mr. Taylor ends his article by saying that "...full-day kindergarten is the reason their (parents) taxes keep going up, the education system is sclerotic, businesses and jobs keep leaving the province, and the budget is never balanced.". Let the teachers and educrats have fun looking up "sclerotic".
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