How long is a kindergarten day in your school district?

I just got Henry's letter with info on kindergarten, and school starts at 8:55 and lets out at 3:30. That's 6.5 hours long!  That seems like a really long day for a 5 year-old to me.  I was just wondering if that is normal for kindergarten these days, or is our school district just insane?

the school my dd was in was like that.. and she had daycare in the am and in the pm.. she was at school from 7am to 4:30pm.. 

she didn't find it that hard.. 

Our school district goes from 7:45 - anywhere from 2:45 - 3:05, depending on the school.  However, Caleb is going to private Kinder (where he's been in preschool so far), and it is from 8:15 - 12:15, with the option of "stay and play" until 1:30.  That was a big deciding factor in our staying there.

We have half-day kindergarten here.

Our school day is 8-3.  DS1 did it in prek at 4 and is now in 1st grade and DS2 is currently doing the same thing.

Classic_Movie_Queen:

We have half-day kindergarten here.

 I guess it isn't that unusual then.  I so wish I had an option for him to go half-day. I would feel enormously better about that.  But we don't even have any private schools around here with half-day kindergarten.  The only option would be to send him back to preschool for another year, but I don't really think that's fair to him.  But going from 3 x a week for 3.5 hours  to 5 x week for 6.5 hours is just such a huge jump.

I work for a private international school, we do options of 3,4,5days a week,.

Half day or full days

Half days are 8:30- 12:30 But School/lessons start at 9am.

Full days are 8:30- 2:45pm

This is a pre school with children age 2.5-3 years 

I think having 2 year olds there learning for 6 hours is too long, some of them are not out of nappies.

Some cry for the first few weeks, Wanting there mummies. Its hard for them.

We have full day kinder here as well--815am-245pm.  DD1 went from 3 days a week prek that was only 830-11 to the all day kinder and she actually loved it! 

I wish that they had half days here as well!

school here is 6 1/2 hours.  I think 1/2 day was 3 1/2. 

We just got full day K here two years ago.  Hours are: 8:30-2:30, but there is the option of 1/2 day.

My school district only does half day Kindergarten, so either 9-12 or 12:15-3:20 Monday-Thursday with shorter days on Fridays.  But the last few years my kids' school got a special grant that allowed them to do full day Kindergarten from 9-3:20, but parents had the option of doing only half day if they wanted.  So last year DD1 was in full day Kindergarten.  Then at the end of last year they lost the grant, so they are back to doing half days.  And honestly I'm pissed about that.  That means next year when DD2 starts Kindergarten and DD1 is in 2nd grade that I'll have to take 3 trips to the school every day or trust them to walk and just take one trip when DD2 would be going to school alone.  Anyways, back to the issue, 6.5 hours really wasn't that long.  They had the schedule set up really well where they had a lot of time to rest and play, they had both a morning snack and lunch, they had reading groups, and also extra curriculars like PE, art, music, library, and parties/assemblies.  With half day they lose a lot of the fun stuff about school until 1st grade.        

 In the public school district here it's from like 8:30 to 11:15. My kids go to catholic school though and it's from 8:35 to 3:10. I don't think that it's too long at all. The public school kids here get jipped....3 hours is way too short. Once they get there it's time to leave.

Half Day is 2hrs 45 min

You can do full day but you have to pay for it.  I thinks its $2500.00 per year

CarolynWantsPink:

3 hours is way too short. Once they get there it's time to leave

thats so true.  If the school has a half day Kindergarten is out at 10 am. (8:30-10)