Paul Blanchette
C.E. posting #2
Topic: education
Title: state board of education makes change to starting age for kindergarten
Writer: Eileen FitzGerald
Publisher: newstimes.com
Date of publication: 12-3-2010
Length: 341 words
The State Board of Education in Connecticut and three other states have changed there starting age from five years old in January to 5 years old in October. This change will take a total of four years to complete because they want to do it gradually. By next year the dead line to be five will not by January but it will be December first, by 2013 the day will become November first, and in 2014 it will make it to its final spot of October first. There are a few reasons for this change one of them being that some kids need to experience more pre-school activities to develop. Another reason to change the age for kindergarten is that it will lesson the gap between age within the classroom, which will allow the kids to develop better and faster. Also this will become a more efficient kindergarten system after the transformation is finished. For all these positives there are also some negatives for example some of the underprivileged children and there familys will have to, in some cases pay for anther year of child care. This will not effect some familys because the State Board of Education in these four states will provide 27.5 million dollars for the year of care. The new age of this change will effect about 7,500 kids who are in the age group that are going to have to another year of pre-school.
Conclusion: These changes to me seem to be pointless and that it is a waist of mony for the schools and the parents of the kids who are affected. Although this change is supposed to help develop kids faster and better I believe that it is not worth 27.5 million dollars for something that might work. This bill will help the development of the kids but with a dent in the schools wallets.
I agree that this change is not worth the incredible cost. I am young for my grade and it has been no problem for me. A couple months will not make a significant difference in the kindergartener's life.
ReplyDeleteI agree that this is a change that does not seem to have much impact.
ReplyDeleteI feel like that current event is analogous to PAUSD's school schedule. The schedule is geared toward children in elementary school, as opposed to those in high school. It would seem more logical to have a district schedule that would help high schoolers more than elementary schoolers.
i agree that this effect of a one month deadline does not change anything but what would make a difference is the age when children can enroll in preschool. in my opinion the age of 5 seems a little too old to be enrolling. They should move it down to age 4 or maybe even age 3.
ReplyDeleteI think that making a change on the age limit for the start of kindergarten won't make much of a difference. If parents can choose to send a child to pre-school or not, then the supposed learning gap will already have been lessened by learning in other ways. At such an age anyways, children learn most from their families, not their school.
ReplyDeleteFor students and most of the teachers this news is not a huge concern because few month does not really effect on their learning process. It is just a matter that administration may have a lot of clerical work to modify their list of name for each school, which may take a while. I am also expecting there should be no problem in proceeding to take this change in effect.
ReplyDeleteThis is ridiculous wasting money on changing the deadline for kindergartners. It is and unnecessary change in the system. Why waste that much money on something that does not matter at all?
ReplyDeleteI think by third grade at the latest the kids who are a few months younger will be caught maturity wise. It is not worth the tremendous cost for only a few of the young kids who actually need more time to mature. There are other things that the state can do with that money that will have more impact on kids.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Kieran that this does not seem worth the money. I also do not think that a few months makes a difference to a kids life that is worth 27.5 million in state's money. Many generations older than these children now have started kindergarden later and have turned out fine, this simply is not necessary.
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