Word: kindergarteners
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Much of the commotion centers around a petition signed by 235 neighborhood residents last fall, which opposed a zoning variance that would allow the school to expand its kindergarten...
...intellectual starvation as a result of shutdowns of the area's schools. Israeli authorities, charging that the schools had become hotbeds of political unrest, not only barred some 330,000 elementary and secondary school children and 17,000 university students from attending courses but even outlawed private classes and kindergarten. Says Elham, a West Bank English teacher: "My children do nothing except watch TV or play cards...
Thousands of people had leaned out of windows and cheered as the marchers surged by. Kindergarten children stood at the gate of their school and applauded, and patients wearing bathrobes emerged from a hospital to accept pamphlets the students were handing...
...above gimmicks. Pushing his slogan "A Smoke-Free Society by the Year 2000," he adopted a kindergarten class whose students pledged not to start smoking ("Like Communists," he says, "you have to get them when they're young"), and everywhere he goes he hands out buttons saying THE SURGEON GENERAL PERSONALLY ASKED ME TO QUIT...
...child in kindergarten, the day is carefully divided into time for listening, playing, coloring, snacking and napping. Middle-class children, raised by parents who worship their watches, adapt easily to this regimen. But for many disadvantaged inner-city youngsters, the structure of the school day apparently seems totally unfamiliar. They often resist the idea that they should stop doing one thing simply because it is time to do something else...