All Day Kindergarten

09/26/2010

Hello Lotties! Just wanted to know how your all day kindergarten mclasses are going so far? What combination and configurations do you have? What are your most pressing challenges? Let's see if we can support each other.

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H. Wight

10/05/2011 21:10

Hello,
I teach at a small rural school in northern BC. We get severe winter conditions. My school is two portables in a parking lot....no gym, no staffroom, no office, etc. District budget cuts may result in my school loosing the second portable. I have 22 students from K to 7. Anyone else facing working conditions that are becoming as unreasonable as what small rural schools in the north are facing?

Virginia

10/12/2011 20:12

Hi, H. Wight,
Wow! Unreasonable conditions is an understatement. Do you have any other support? One of our PSA members taught in Holberg in similar conditions, not quite as severe in Winter, but I'm sure she would be happy to share ideas with you, if you like. Take care.

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Virginia Ivey, current president of the BCRSSTA, works at Pinantan Elem., a small "rural fringe" school outside of Kamloops. She has 22 students: grades 2,3,4.