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Maybe they could just scrap the half days? And make the age a little more flexible? WA does not allow you to have any flexibility on enrolment age. My daughter was a hair over 3.5 when she started kindy. She was just a baby. Still napped occasionally. I wonder if things would have been different if we could have held her back a year? I understand kindy is funded for 2.5 days a week? Our school broke it up into 2 days a week in the first semester and 3 days in second semester. Worked well. Perhaps 3 days a week could be funded? 5 days of school is too much for these little ones. It’s different to daycare, there’s much more opportunity for downtime during a daycare day.
Comment by AllyMayHey92 at 03/02/2025 at 22:14 UTC
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Kindy isn’t actually funded by the department at all because it’s non compulsory. Schools fund it directly. Surely if the suggestion is 5 days a week they’ll have to fund them. Some low socio economic areas already operate at a deficit.
A lot of private schools have the option of 3 or 5 days, maybe that’s something they could do.