Word: kindergarten
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This is an easy one. We all learned in kindergarten--at least back in the Seventies we did--that everybody is unique. Even superpowers...
Authorities generally agree on the requirements for an effective program. It must start in the lower grades or kindergarten; two health educators at the state-funded Western Massachusetts Primary Prevention Center are even developing a program for preschoolers. It must be continuous, not a one-shot or one-week affair. It must go beyond drugs to teach children how to develop the self-esteem that those tempted by narcotics usually lack and how to deal with strains and tensions without turning to drugs. It must not only tell children to say no but train them to resist peer pressure...
...takes a few more dates and some sexual politicking, but they make the big decision to move in together, much to the disgust of Bernie and Debbie's no nonsense kindergarten teacher by day/nymphomaniac by night roommate Joan (Elizabeth Perkins...
...blue jeans, sandwiches are comfortable, adaptable and practical. They can be dressed up with the best beluga caviar and finest Scotch smoked salmon or reduced to the simplest school-lunch-box peanut-butter-and-jelly combination or even a "Fluffernutter" (peanut butter with Marshmallow Fluff, the rage with the kindergarten set). Sandwiches may be dainty, crustless cucumber-and-watercress creations for genteel tea parties or towering copies of the Dagwood, the raid-the-refrigerator construction invented by Blondie's husband Dagwood Bumstead. Determined to add as much as possible to his nocturnal feast, he was known to include sardines...
...parental push, the trend will accelerate: at New York City's public Hunter College Elementary School, where two requisites for entry are a 135 IQ and a parental essay on the child, 1,500 applications pour in each year for 86 places in the pre-K and the kindergarten classes. The Sidwell Friends School in Washington (tuition: up to $5,000) sifts 300 applications for 28 pre-K spots so coveted that former Admissions Director Georgia Irvin received phone calls saying, "We're planning a family and we wondered, Is it really better (for admissions) to have a baby...