Outside of the centre of the world this has happened in spades already to not just private pre-school programs but also municipal ones.

Regent Park might be the first canary to fall in Toronto but
take a look outside of the Big Smoke and see a whole graveyard of canaries.

Perhaps the gov’t should have considered the effects of all-day K outside of vote-rich Toronto?

First the nursery schools that serves a larger proportion of low-income children, and those nursery schools that specializes in special-needs children will go first. As the Ontario ELP expands, the nursery schools that serves the middle-income will start to close. But what was probably never discussed among the educrats and bureaucratic number crunchers, was the the quality private nursery schools that deals with special needs children, with mild to moderate delays, serving the low to middle-income groups. Besides the outstanding work being done by the private nursery schools, which I can attest to because my youngest attended a nursery school, that dealt with mild to moderate delays, what was never discussed is the number of private nursery schools dealing with special needs children. Far too few, as I had discovered, that was within my pocketbook, and I was down to two out of 4 nursery school programs. I than based my selection on distance, and I chose the closest one, which offered pick-up and drop-off service.

The Bond Nursery School, may be the first one to go, but it will not be the last.What really drives me around the bend, is that the ELP program that is offered by the public education system is of poorer quality for children with special-needs of mild to moderate. The sad thing is the proof in my former statement will come to light 5 years from now in the stats of increasing numbers of children accessing SE services for language and other services. One-sized-fits-all ELP will be a disaster for children with mild to moderate delays, that may or may not need professional intervention, but are made worse by the progressive pedagogy that is practiced by the public education system. The quality is not there, nor will there little of adapting the progressive pedagogy to the child, but rather asking the child to adapt to the progressive pedagogy within defined parameters.

The quality will go out the window, in favour of a one-sized-fits-all norm, where the mild to moderate delayed children, will not received the education services needed, since they are now part of the norm. And than the dumbing down begins with earnest…..........and the evidence can be found in the stats.

From a parent in the Globe article, “Munira Khilji?s four-year-old son, Yusuf, had delayed speech and motor skills when he started at Bond nearly two years ago. Now he is a chatterbox who can climb stairs. He commutes from Thorncliffe Park, but his mother says the trip is worthwhile because the program has been ?life-changing.?

?I am truly upset that it is closing because I?ve seen what it does for children,? she said. ?I feel like someone is dying, it?s just wrong.”
http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/low-income-families-to-lose-award-winning-nursery-school/article2144440/?service=mobile