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...French, being more phonetic, is easier to learn first. Kindergartners start by handling Montessori method alphabet cards with "tactile" sandpaper letters, soon form words and start reading and writing in French. Apparently they have no trouble switching to English in first grade: "We just add the sounds," says the headmistress, Mrs. Eric Correa. Now the kids are doing arithmetic in French as well as English...
Farmington has been deluged with not particularly welcome applications ever since Mrs. Kennedy became First Lady. Mr. and Mrs. Hollis S. French, who became headmaster and headmistress in 1954, are holding Farmington's thin, well-read line. Even Caroline Kennedy will not get in unless her grades are good, for although Miss Porter's weighs a girl's ancestry with respect, says Headmaster French, it also searches for bright scholars "who have no connection with the past." But Caroline is undaunted. She reportedly informed her father not long ago that in her White House play school (where...
...author's spare style seems to be the product less of economy than of penury. The book consists of reminiscences by several former Edinburgh schoolgirls about an eccentric teacher who was the guru of their set. One of the girls betrayed the teacher, Miss Brodie, to a disapproving headmistress, and the story quietly explains the manner of the betrayal. The trouble with the novel is not that its subject is unpromising; Author Spark's fans are confident of her ability to discover astonishing falsities in unlikely places. The language stings as elegantly as ever, and when the author...
...burden to her family. She was no early beauty. She had a face shaped like a teardrop and (she says) "ears that flapped like cabbage leaves." At Roedean she followed up her gaffe before the Queen Mother with other capers that ranged from throwing water on the headmistress to mayhem on the playing fields, where she broke the legs of two schoolmates ("but only one seriously-cricket is such a deadly dull game, I took aim at girls llegs"), cracked the collarbone of another during a foot race ("She was getting ahead of me, so I tripped...
...headmistress is Reiner's freethinking wife Alice. "We try hard not to impose phony adult standards.'' she says. "They learn by doing. If they want to take off all their clothes, that's perfectly all right with us. The parents aren't quite ready for that yet, but they did agree that the girls could strip down to bikinis." Says a parent: "They learn without realizing they're learning. It makes us feel like such good parents...