Entries Tagged as ‘Letters’

October 22, 2009

Our daughter has waited long enough

This letter to the editor was in today’s The Guardian. I hope the public will understand the challenges that families face on Prince Edward Island.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Editor:
There are more kids being diagnosed with autism and it should become a priority.
Our three-year-old daughter was diagnosed with autism in November 2008. We were put on a [...]

October 31, 2008

Premier chooses kindergarten operators over needs of children

We finally received word from the Premier yesterday regarding his decision on our request to fund the kindergarten program that we have chosen to enroll our children in. It is extremely disappointing to read the following response from the Premier…….
From: Robert Ghiz <RWJGHIZ@gov.pe.ca>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:18:51 -0300
Subject: Re: Kindergarten Meeting
Hello Dawn:
I am writing as a follow-up [...]

October 17, 2008

Inital Government Response on Kindergarten

I sent the Premier a follow up email today since I had not received a response from the Premier’s office from the email I had sent on behalf of the parents a week ago. I received the following response from the Deputy Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development this afternoon.
I am writing in follow-up [...]

September 15, 2008

Premier schedules meeting with Kindergarten parents……

………but I am not welcome to attend.
After a week of calls back and forth with the Premier’s office, the kindergarten parents now have a meeting date to discuss the issues around why they will not fund the CHANCES kindergarten program. The meeting is scheduled for October 1, 2008 at 11:30am and will also include the [...]

September 8, 2008

Kindergarten Parent Letter – Follow up

Well it has been 14 days since we sent the letter to the Premier asking for a meeting to discuss the reason why CHANCES does not meet the requirements of the kindergarten funding policy and voice our dissatisfaction with the Government regarding this issue.
No response yet. No call to set up a meeting, no politically [...]

August 26, 2008

CHANCES Kindergarten Parent Letter

Today the Parents of the CHANCES Kindergarten Program submitted a letter to the Premier asking why our children are being discriminated against because they will not fund this new kindergarten program in Stratford.

Parents of CHANCES Kindergarten Program
c/o April Ennis
RR#3, Montague
Summerville, PE
Civic #3811, C0A 1R0
 
August 22, 2008
 
Hon. Robert W. J. Ghiz
PO Box 2000
Charlottetown, PE
C1A 7N8
 
Dear Hon. Mr. [...]