The city could be on the hook for the cash after failing to place 2,500 special needs
kindergarten kids in public schools.
Not exact matches
Although my heart wants to home
school or unschool Ava, I'm not giving
in and instead am leaving her
in public school for
kindergarten (
in a class of 25
kids) this year.
We have friends whose
kids are going to the
public kindergarten (only 1/2 day) with the «wraparound» enrichment program for the rest of the day; their little ones are already stressed out because they have just 2.75 hours
in school, during which they're basically being trampled on with mountains of «instruction,» and the wraparound program gives just 20 minutes for lunch while foregoing rest time
in favor of «reading instruction» and «homework help.»
«
Kindergarten kids learning
in front of a monitor — that's just wrong,» said Maryelen Calderwood, an elected
school committee member
in Greenfield, Mass., who unsuccessfully tried to stop K12 from contracting with her community to create New England's first virtual
public school last year.
«With the
kids going to regular junior
kindergarten at the local
public school in the fall, we'll only need the nanny part - time at a cost of $ 12,000 annually,» says Raj.