Helen Ward:The Agency itself is a temporary office located within the Ministry of Education made up of staff from the two ministries, as I described below, and led by the Ministry of Education It is a cooperative venture between the…
Tag: Kids First Resource
Institutionalized daycare in the Spin Cycle
July 14, 2008 - Canadian Taxpayers FederationParents and governments across Canada have rejected institutionalized daycare programs. So what is the B.C. government offering now? All-day kindergarten. No matter how the government tries to spin it, all-day kindergarten is nothing more…
Kids First submission to BC Early Learning Agency on all-day schooling for 3 to 5 year olds
Kids First submission to BC Early Learning Agency on all-day schooling for 3 to 5 year olds: July 5, 2008. Helen Ward. Kids Fist Parent Association of Canada - government submission: "Comments" (PDF) This document can also be found in…
Kids First Requests names of “stakeholders” invited to all-day schooling consultations
From: Helen Ward [mailto:info@kidsfirstcanada.org]Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2008 10:17 PMTo: Kennedy, Susan E EDUC:EXSubject: Re: Your question Thank you for your reply. Could you provide more details as to the membership of the ECLA? You mention "parent advocacy organizations", stakeholders,…
Read More Kids First Requests names of “stakeholders” invited to all-day schooling consultations
Press Release June 27, 2008
The BC government is conducting a secretive so-called "public" consultation on early learning—but parents are not invited. The issue is full day schooling for ages 3-5. Online consultation at: http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/ecla/ (broken link) There is a July 18 deadline.Such a major…
HELP Findings that Contradict HELP’s Promotion of Early Schooling/Daycare (broken link)
Negative behavioural outcomes found for daycare centres "Pro-social behaviour scores were lowest for children in licensed day care and highest for children in unregulated home care and relative care." Statistics Canada "National Data Sets: Sources of Information for Canadian Child…
Read More HELP Findings that Contradict HELP’s Promotion of Early Schooling/Daycare (broken link)
Thousands choosing computers over classroom
Excerpts from the article by Cathryn Atkinson. The Globe and Mail. Toronto, Ont.: Apr 30, 2008. pg. S.3 Program offering distance-learning courses has nearly tripled its online student body since its launch less than three years ago Logging onto the…
Spring 2008: Kids First Submission to the Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science, and Technology re: OECD “Starting Strong II” Report and Kids First Policy Recommendations
Spring 2008. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - government submission (PDF): "Submission to SEnate Committe on Social Affairs, Science and Technology" and Spring 2008. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - government submission (PDF): "Policy Recommendations 2008 Inclusion, Equality,…
BC Ministry of Education response of Mar 4, 2008 to Kids First request for equitable parental participation in talks on full-day schooling for ages 3-5
Helen Ward, PresidentKids First Parent Association of Canada Email: info@kidsfirstcanada.org March 4, 2007 [sic]Our Ref: 124874 Dear Helen Ward: Thank you for your email dated February 29, 2008, sent to the Honourable Shirley Bond, Minister of Education, regarding your concerns…
Is full-day schooling for ages 3-5 a foregone conclusion?
UBC body promoting more institutional child care announces "Universal 'Child Care' Coming" before the so called "consultation" has even taken place or the "agency" to discuss it has been formed. This group—the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP)—is led by leading…
Read More Is full-day schooling for ages 3-5 a foregone conclusion?
Kids First letter of Feb 29, 2008 to BC Minister of Education requesting to be involved in consultation on full day schooling for ages 3-5
Dear Minister Bond:The throne speech announced the creation of an agency to explore the possibility of full day kindergarten for children ages 3-5.We ask that the money set aside for this be delivered to parents to help pay for our…
“Research” the BC government is using in all-day schooling consultation
“Research” the BC government is using in all-day schooling consultation (PDF): The list provided by the Ministry of Education at our request reveals a great deal of material by daycare lobbyists and their organizations, most of it not peer reviewed…
Read More “Research” the BC government is using in all-day schooling consultation
All-Day Schooling for Ages 3 to 5? (broken link)
From the February 2008 Throne Speech (broken link): "A new Early Childhood Learning Agency will be established. It will assess the feasibility and costs of full school day kindergarten for five-year-olds. It will also undertake a feasibility study of providing…
Nov. 30 2007—Kids First President Helen Ward and activist Kate Tennier in Ottawa Citizen on push for full-day Kindergarten (broken link)
Nov. 30 2007—Kids First President Helen Ward and activist Kate Tennier in Ottawa Citizen on push for full-day Kindergarten: More School isn’t Always Better (broken link)
June 2007: Transcript of Presentation and Q & A Re: Bill C-303 to HUMA (broken link)
June 2007. Transcript of Presentation and Q & A Re: Bill C-303 to HUMA (broken link)