{"id":2307,"date":"2009-06-18T08:40:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T13:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=2307"},"modified":"2009-06-18T09:42:46","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T14:42:46","slug":"more-thoughts-on-full-day-kindergarten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/06\/18\/more-thoughts-on-full-day-kindergarten\/","title":{"rendered":"More thoughts on full-day kindergarten"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought it was worth a second post (here’s the first<\/a>) to link to some of the fantastic opinions people have expressed on the subject of full-day kindergarten in Ontario.<\/p>\n

In our little corner of the blogosphere Rebecca at a bit of momsense <\/a>is still on the fence. BeachMama<\/a> isn’t on the fence at all – she doesn’t suppport the idea.<\/p>\n

Randall Denley in today’s Citizen provides a rant<\/s> contrary opinion from the grumpy old men contingent<\/a>, and Elizabeth Payne (one of my favourite Citizen columnist) provides a more balanced and thoughtful — not to mention favourable <\/a>— insight. Best quote to date, IMHO, goes to Elizabeth Payne for this one:<\/p>\n

Bail out a badly run and outdated car company and people will shrug their shoulders. Try to build a system in which all children have access to good-quality care, and an equal start in life, and wait for the howls of outrage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve been loving your comments, here and elsewhere in the blogosphere. And I’ve been prudently ignoring the comment sections on articles about full-day kindergarten in the major media. If I believed the majority of those comments, I’d be thinking I’m a “self-indulgent, latte-toting, lazy mother who had more children than she could afford to raise and is now looking for to the state to raise them for her.” Nice.<\/p>\n

Edited to add: <\/strong> hoo-boy, it’s not just the anonymous comentators who are opinionated wing-nuts. Alberta’s Minister of Finance thinks <\/a>‘raising children properly’ requires one parent to stay at home. Yikes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought it was worth a second post (here’s the first) to link to some of the fantastic opinions people have expressed on the subject of full-day kindergarten in Ontario. In our little corner of the blogosphere Rebecca at a bit of momsense is still on the fence. BeachMama isn’t on the fence at all … Continue reading “More thoughts on full-day kindergarten”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-working-and-mothering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2307"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2314,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions\/2314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}