The Woodstock Nursery School (WNS), the town’s longest-standing preschool that has been serving families in the local area since 1951, will suspend operations for the coming school year due to the board’s inability over the course of the past two months to recruit a new, state-licensed lead teacher.
The WNS Board of Directors learned in early June that longtime lead teacher Wendy Krygier would not be returning to the licensed childcare facility, which is located in the Woodstock Recreation Center at 54 River Street, for the 2025-26 school year. The nursery school directors immediately notified current and prospective families and enrollees of Krygier’s departure. They stated that the WNS leaders could not guarantee the childcare center’s reopening in the fall if recruitment efforts for a licensed lead teacher replacement for Krygier did not bear fruit by August 1. The WNS leaders are now notifying presently enrolled and prospective families that the preschool will not be opening for the coming school year.
For more on this, please see our August 7 edition of the Vermont Standard.
