McGuinty's full-day kindergarten plan means full classrooms, too

Dalton McGuinty, who initially promoted reduced class sizes in schools, has now reformed his platform to accommodate the budget. With the investment of hundreds of millions of dollars, McGuinty will introduce full-day classes for Ontario’s kindergarten students under “the province's new early-learning program”. Although this project is supposed to be one of optimism and improvement, not only is the province spending millions of dollars to put the program into action, but class sizes on average will increase significantly. As if things couldn’t sound any worse, the class sizes that are affected the most are those of the lower grades – the ones that McGuinty’s initial platform to reduce class sizes had targeted. It turns out that McGuinty’s defense for this situation is that there will be an early-childhood educator in addition to a teacher in the classroom at all times, therefore reducing the student-teacher ratio to 13:1.

Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/mcguintys-full-day-kindergarten-plan-means-full-classrooms-too/article1339417/