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KINDERGARTEN: Cut hours a parental pain

| August 18, 2010 6:18 AM

Do you have a kindergartner in Post Falls? Am I the only parent who thinks this system is transparent and TOTAL CRAP? Let's only do kindergarten for 2 hours 45 minutes a day.

Let's not bus the kids to AND from school so the parents are forced to pay the school for their overpriced GAP program (which is on average $150 MORE a month than any day care in Post Falls). And don't EVEN get me started on the school supplies list.

HELLO!! PARENTS!!! We need to fix this. How about we all stand together and demand full day kindergarten? Here's an idea... how ‘bout we just skip the hassle of kindergarten and start with first grade? How many teachers would be out of work then and how much school funding would be lost? There is no reason kindergarten should be such a hassle. Many a person has survived full day kindergarten and gone on to lead happy and healthy lives. Kindergarten should be fun and exciting for us parents too! It should be a day to rejoice and watch our children make another milestone. Instead we are agonizing over how this RIDICULOUS 2.75-hour a day schedule wrecks our whole life for a year.

Kindergarten is a pain in the keister in Post Falls and it shouldn't be. Maybe after we tackle this problem we can move onto bigger and better things... like demanding the education cuts STOP from our government, so we don't have to keep fighting things like this.

JENNIE BECK

Post Falls