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...last year, 31 states and the District of Columbia had mandated that schools provide some form of AIDS education, and virtually every state encourages such programs. But the curriculum varies greatly among schools, even among teachers. The most ardent proponents argue that health education should begin in kindergarten and eventually include detailed instruction about the nature and risks of homosexual and heterosexual intercourse. Conservatives are appalled. "We've seen the ACT-UP and Planned Parenthood curriculum proposals," says Monsignor Woolsey. "I wouldn't put them in Times Square bookstores, let alone schools. The average parent would throw up reading them...
...have been no appeals to the private sector for funding to continue the project. Financially hard-pressed state and local governments across the U.S. would find it extremely tough to assume the burden of such a program. In California, for example, a move to a 220-day program from kindergarten through high school would cost $121 million a day, according to Charles Ballinger, executive director of the National Association for Year- Round Education...
...Grunt all you want. Millions of people were helped by Robert Fulghum's first two books, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten and It Was on Fire When I Lay Down...
Figueroa's sordid account runs as follows. Beginning in kindergarten at St. Anthony's church in Kailua, Hawaii, he was continually molested by the parish priest. When the boy was in his teens, the priest died, but Ferrario, his successor, continued the sex abuse for years, paying Figueroa for odd jobs in return. Ferrario also aided Figueroa in quitting high school just before graduation and joining the gay community in San Francisco. Figueroa alleges that the sexual entanglement continued even after Ferrario became a bishop, with trysts at church residences in Honolulu and Menlo Park, Calif. Figueroa's lawyers claim...
...best, Naked Hollywood puts a human twist on the familiar tales of Hollywood mass production and megalomania. One sequence tracks the relay team of writers hired by producer-director Ivan Reitman to massage the script of Kindergarten Cop. ("I felt he was somewhat written out," says Reitman of original writer Murray Salem. Says Salem: "He was not that friendly to me.") James Caan recalls career missteps that included turning down the lead roles in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Kramer vs. Kramer...