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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As an actual K teacher, I am excited about the potential of this. I t would be great to have only our k students in the building the first day of school. Hopefully non k staff works be available to help in each classroom. I could write paragraphs about how this would be useful to kindergartners. Ideally, we’d have half the kids on day 1, the other half on day 2 and everyone on day 3. This would be in addition to an Orientation day in the spring and the Open House on the Thursday before school starts. That’s what a child centered approach would look like. If you know, you know.[/quote]

+1 the people I know who were advocating for a spring orientation are K teachers. These are the people CO dismisses and ignores. Shame on them.[/quote]

Most of the K teachers I know are not advocating for a Spring orientation because it makes transition easier but because it makes planning and class assignment easier.  In that they can observe the students and make some initial assessments.   They acknowledge they will still need to review the kids again in the first weeks of school because many months will have passed.  But any known special needs or suspected special needs, that knowledge helps, as does the ability to balance personalities.[/quote]

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