Simon Watt chooses to send his daughter Charlotte, 3, to kindergarten because it is a pre-school option that works for his family, and he fears the Heretaunga Kindergarten Association's recent restructure proposal will take that choice away.
Charlotte attends Te Mata Kindergarten, which is one of the few kindergartens within the association to still run two sessions a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.
The proposal for Te Mata Kindergarten was to offer one consecutive session six hours a day, five days a week, and reduce staffing from one head teacher and three full-time teachers, to a head teacher, two full-time teachers, and two part-time positions, he said.
Currently Te Mata Kindergarten operates two sessions five days a week: one in the morning for the 4-year-old children from 8.15am to 12.30pm and Charlotte attends afternoon sessions for 3-year-olds from 1pm to 3pm.
"That was the traditional kindergarten model and we choose to send our child there because we support this model," Mr Watt said.