Thank you, Mr. Chairman. These are interesting exchanges between the Minister and my colleagues. I wanted to ask the Minister, in regards to junior kindergarten, when we are looking at staffing these positions for this specific group of children, junior kindergarten, is the Minister also open to the flexibility of the small communities that we are going to be putting these programs in, to look at the strong Aboriginal culture component? We have teachers; they may just not be qualified in the eyes of the Department of Education and Culture. That could be into these schools, some of these teachers are well specialized in child development in their culture world point of view. Balance that with what we are trying to do. These are four-year-olds, you know, they are just developing and developing into life. I am trying to think of my little guy when he was four years old. His grandmother was around quite a bit to teach him, so I would want to ask the Minister, there are some strong components to some of these smaller communities. If they are unable to get the qualified teachers that we want, there are people in the communities that could come in as a teacher under the project here to work with the junior kindergartens in an Aboriginal context of child development. Thank you.
Norman Yakeleya on Committee Motion 16-17(5): Comprehensive Review Of The Program Review Office, Defeated
In the Legislative Assembly on February 26th, 2014. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 16-17(5): Comprehensive Review Of The Program Review Office, Defeated
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 25th, 2014
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