And what about parents that will now need to pay for expensive child care?
Then again, anytime the state is afforded less of an opportunity and time to brainwash the kids is a good thing.
"Schools reconsider full-day programs; High fees threaten kindergarten plans" by Linda K. Wertheimer, Globe Staff | February 18, 2009
With the economy in decline, several school districts are rethinking their plans for full-day kindergarten because of the high fees involved, threatening the state's recent inroads in making a full day of school available to all 5-year-olds.
Yeah, we got TRILLIONS upon TRILLIONS for WARS and BANKS, but NUTHIN' for the KIDS!!!!!!!!
In Hingham, the school system dropped plans for full-day kindergarten, because the town didn't want to stick parents with a bill for thousands of dollars a year. In Winchester, leaders want to charge $2,500 to send youngsters to kindergarten for a full day but worry about parents pushing back. And in Lexington, parents are already objecting to a $1,075 fee for the full-day program.
"People are losing their jobs, their life savings. It's really not the time to saddle us with another bill," said Sharon Olofsson, a Lexington parent who spoke out against the school system's kindergarten fee at a School Committee meeting last week.
But TAXES are GOING UP ALL ACROSS the BOARD AROUND HERE!!!!
See: Patrick Gives Massachusetts a Hummer
Three-fourths of the state's public kindergarten students are in full-day classes, compared to roughly a fourth a decade ago....
I'd hate to be a kid now, stuck in that classroom when I could be home playing.
The average full-day kindergarten fee has jumped by $282 per student to $2,682 in the last four years as state funding for kindergarten took hits during budget crises.
And look whose backs they are balancing the budget with: the blind, mentally ill, kids, cripples, and old folk!
Last fall, Governor Deval Patrick cut a transition grant fund that helps more school systems expand from half- to full-day programs.
As he DOLED OUT MILLIONS to HOLLYWOOD and a BILLION to BIOTECH!
Also see: Biotech Giveaway Was Borrowed Money
Fewer school systems are making the move to add classes, and a growing percentage of families are being asked to pay for the extra time in school - and to pay higher fees than in the past, according to educators and state data.
What a FAILURE this "guverner" has been!!!! What a SLIMY LIAR, too!!!!
"We're not able to move on at the pace we'd like to in implementing full-day kindergarten statewide," said state Secretary of Education Paul Reville, who said he still believes the state's goal of having full-day kindergarten in all school systems is realistic.
The question mark, he said, is whether the full-day classes can be offered free in all places by 2018, a new goal set by a state commission in December.
Yup, FAR ENOUGH OUT so we all FORGET the BROKEN PROMISES!!!!!
TRILLIONS for WARS and BANKS, sir!!!!!
"We had an economic tsunami between now and then," he said of the goal's establishment.
They are using that to balme everything -- and HIDING TAXPAYER MONEY the whole time!
The state has been pushing for more full-day kindergarten classes since it established a grant program for full-day kindergarten in 2000. Massachusetts mandates half-day programs, as do the majority of states, according to the Education Commission of the States in Denver, which advises policy-makers on education.
You know what? I'm sick of STATE-SPONSORED LIES being described as ejerkashen, 'kay?
Most states are cutting spending on full-day kindergarten despite a growing national view among educators and lawmakers that children need more time in kindergarten to be successful in subsequent years....
Yes, the KIDS need the NANNY STATE BABYSITTER to make sure they are successful! Then WHY are HOME-SCHOOLED KIDS a LOT SMARTER than our BRAIN-DEAD, PUBLIC SCHOOL ZOMBIES, huh? Video games?
Half-day kindergarten programs are generally 3 to 3 1/2 hours a day, while full-day programs run to about six hours.
Yeah, the WAY IT WAS when I was a kid and the WAY it OUGHT TO BE!!!
Then the kid can GO HOME and PLAY!!!!
Schools use the extra time, educators say, to go deeper into lessons and include more extras, such as music, art, and nap time.
Yes, art is important.
And the kid can't do any of those things at home, huh?
Ever hear of finger-painting?
The biggest plus, teachers say, is getting to know children better and catching learning problems earlier....
Like before they inject the kid with autism?
