Currently, teachers who have taught higher elementary grades, such as 4th grade, can be put in
charge of kindergarten classrooms, despite being unfamiliar with the needs and capacities of children in kindergarten.
«I can't even believe this is before us,» Mertz said, speaking
of a complicated arrangement in the proposed contract that would have let IMA continue to
charge private tuition for
kindergarten for 3 - year - olds in the same
classroom as young public students in the school.