I agree with the Member, we’re possibly utilizing community members. We know that some of the community members have worked in the education field or early childhood for 20-plus years. They may not have a degree or diploma, but they have all this experience under their belt. How can we best utilize them in a classroom setting? If we can have some sort of mentorship program working with the teachers, professional teachers. I’ve stated that there’s going to be some training and those individuals that have been identified in the Member’s riding, through the school boards we’ll be able to identify those individuals that we can work with that can be part of the team to provide the junior kindergarten implementation.

The training, as I’ve highlighted, will be this spring and later this summer and will be part of the process. So those individuals that the Member is referring to that have experience of possibly 20-plus

years but they don’t have the paper to show that they have a degree, how can we best put them in the classroom setting with the qualification that we can provide them? That is in the works and we’re going to move forward on that through the college and different agencies that we work with. Mahsi.