Kindergarten - Full Day or Half-Day? :: Teaching Education

Kindergarten - Full Day or Half-Day? On August 30, 2000, the doc State Board of Education made a request for compulsory bounteous-day kindergarten to be added into their budget for the fiscal year of 2002. The Boards end is to have full-day kindergarten programs implemented in all state public schools by the 2004-2005 school year (Maryland State Board of Education MSDE, 2000). Making this miscellany from half-day kindergarten to full-day kindergarten, they hope full-day kindergarten will help children benefit academically in the vast run. Despite these goals, it is unclear as to whether full-day kindergarten is actually beneficial to all children.The root day of kindergarten can be an awful experience. I vividly phone how terrible the first day of kindergarten was for me. I cried until I had no tear left, and I clung to my milliamperes side for safety. After several attempts, my mom and Miss. Mariner, my kindergarten teacher, were able to coax me to enter the classro om. They provided me with several reasons as to why I would like kindergarten, but it was that final argument that school was only deuce-ace hours long, which convinced me to brave it out. I didnt have any disorders. I wanted to learn, and I was by no means antisocial. I was claustrophobic of leaving my mom, and I was uncomfortable of changing my normal schedule. Fortunately, I love kindergarten and after that first day there were no more tears. However, I was still preoccupied with the fact that three hours of my life were being interpreted from me. After the third week of school, I told my mom I had to abandon all my other activities because school took up too much of my time. I laugh now at how precocious I was, but in the eyes of any five-year-old, three hours is a huge chunk of their time. I cannot even imagine what my behavior would have been like if kindergarten was a full day. After three hours of school, I was exhausted and a little irritable. This enactment from no str ucture to six hours of structured school time may be too much for a young child to handle. This is why kindergarten should focus on acclimating a child to the school day by allowing them to wade into the waters, instead of throwing them into the deep end.