Kindergarten
Kindergarten was introduced to the Coleville area in 1960. For a tuition cost of $4 per month, kindergarten classes were held for 100 half-days (9:00AM to 11:30AM). Kindergarten was established and initially taught by Vivian Close, and classes were held in a small storage room in the basement of the brick school. The Coleville kindergarten became part of a provincial feasibility study regarding mandating kindergarten in all schools. Kindergarten eventually did become part of the school system, with classes occurring all day, every second day.
Read more about this topic: Coleville School District No. 3645
Famous quotes containing the word kindergarten:
“Taking men into the union is just the kindergarten of their education and every force is against their further education. Men who live up those lonely creeks have only the mine owners’ Y.M.C.As, the mine owners’ preachers and teachers, the mine owners’ doctors and newspapers to look to for their ideas. So they don’t get many.”
—Mother Jones (1830–1930)
“While waiting to get married, several forms of employment were acceptable. Teaching kindergarten was for those girls who stayed in school four years. The rest were secretaries, typists, file clerks, or receptionists in insurance firms or banks, preferably those owned or run by the family, but respectable enough if the boss was an upstanding Christian member of the community.”
—Barbara Howar (b. 1934)
“Life begins at six—at least in the minds of six-year-olds. . . . In kindergarten you are the baby. In first grade you put down the baby. . . . Every first grader knows in some osmotic way that this is real life. . . . First grade is the first step on the way to a place in the grown-up world.”
—Stella Chess (20th century)