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Most authorities agree that sex education should start early. The superintendent of schools in the New York City suburb of Glen Cove, where sex education begins in kindergarten, reports that he has received 800 requests from other school systems and church groups for a pamphlet describing the program. Glen Cove kindergartners discuss the coming of a new baby into the family group. "We make it clear that the baby was not 'got' at the hospital, but grew inside the mother until the doctor helped it get out," says Glen Cove's Mrs. Rose Daniels, sex-education consultant...
...seem certain to finish the year, although about a dozen are still on probation, and others regard the program with ghetto-bred cynicism. One of the brightest, but most belligerent white boys, calls the project "kindergarten for grown-up kiddies-Mouseketeer meetings, all that conforming jazz." He says he wants to make it "on my own," hopes to transfer to Southern Cal. Youths from the Negro ghettos have had the roughest time adjusting, partly because nearly all-white Bellingham is strange to them. Concedes one faculty adviser: "Bellingham at night, when the time comes for recreation, is no place...
...court ruled 8-4 that beginning next fall local school authorities must start desegregating all classes from kindergarten through the 12th grade. "Boards and officials administering public schools in this circuit," it said, "have the affirmative duty under the 14th Amendment to bring about an integrated, unitary school system in which there are no Negro schools and no white schools-just schools...
...Thirds Majority. The vaccinators' targets this year will be some 4,000,000 babies, plus 4,000,000 children in first and second grades who have so far escaped the needle, and about 2,000,000 in kindergarten, nursery...
...fact that there are neurotic and destructive elements among the 27,000 Berkeley students is no reason to run the university like a kindergarten. If boys of 18 and 19 are old enough to die for their country, for a cause in which many of them do not believe, they are old enough to have a voice in the affairs of their country and their university...