Your writer Claire Topping should be more careful in checking her facts about kindergartens; 1. All our kindergartens have minimum ratios of 1 teacher to 10 children. 2. All of these teachers are trained and registered. 3. Many of our kindergartens offer six free hours per day/30 hours per week. 4. All the funds received from government or parent donations are used for children not siphoned off as profits.

Peter Monteith Principal/Tumuaki
Tauranga Region Kindergartens.