The Carpentersville-based Community Unit School District 300 Board of Education Monday night approved the purchase or lease of a double-classroom mobile unit for Westfield Community School in Algonquin.
The move was prompted by complaints from parents who feared that kindergartners would be in school until 4:15 p.m. because of the increased enrollment at Westfield.
Kindergarten for the 2000-01 school year would need six half-day sessions instead of the current four half-day sessions. Two classrooms are devoted to kindergarten.
The school’s improvement team had recommended that 15 minutes of instructional time be dropped and three sessions be held in each of the two kindergarten classrooms. The first session would have begun about 8 a.m. and the last class dismissed after 4 p.m.
The decreased instructional time would have totaled 45 hours for the school year.
Parents had also asked the board to consider converting a music room into a kindergarten classroom, but the board opted for the additional mobile unit.
