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Dollars for Kindergarten...
...ranked private college the odds against admission are long and the chances of devastating disappointment great. But huge numbers of parents who want to get their children into private schools have discovered that the trauma of admissions screening nowadays begins at age four-the year before kindergarten...
Admission to good kindergartens in big cities has been tight since World War II. But lately the situation has become preposterous. In San Francisco two-thirds of the children applying to private kindergartens fail to get into their first-choice school. In Boston anxious parents of 80 preschoolers have sent in applications more than a year in advance for next year's class at the Commonwealth Day School. In New York the Educational Records Bureau, which evaluates applicants for kindergartens, is doing a thriving business. Says Helen LaCroix, director of admissions at Chicago's Francis W. Parker School...
...Private kindergarten used to be only for the children of high-paid professionals and the very rich. No longer. The two-income family has created both a greater need for kindergartens-and nursery schools-and often also an ability to pay, somehow, the $2,000 to nearly $4,000 that many kindergartens now charge. In 1968 only a third of the nation's three-to fiveyear-olds were enrolled in nursery schools or kindergartens, but by 1978 the number had jumped to more than 50%. "Right now," says Robert Munro of the Bentley School in Oakland, Calif., "we have...
Every community should have full compulsory education from kindergarten to eighth, as well as courses for the gifted, normal and exceptional. From then on education should be voluntary, with one school for liberal arts and one or more for vocational, trade, shop or agriculture, depending on the community needs...