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Next fall, announced Washington's Sidwell Friends School, "a limited number of qualified Negro students" will be admitted to the school's kindergarten. Among the students now attending all-white Sidwell: three children of Mississippi's arch-segregationist Senator James O. Eastland, loudest voice of the bias-bawling white Citizens' Council. On hearing the news. Mrs. Elizabeth Eastland gulped: "It comes as a surprise." Affably drawled Jim Eastland: "No comment." The Senator's consolation, if he decides to let his children stay at Sidwell: unless his kiddies flunk several grades, or some of the late...
...Major John Eisenhower's children, David, 7, and Barbara Anne, 6, attend a private Episcopal school in Alexandria, Va. Susan, 4, goes to the integrated kindergarten at the U.S. Army's Fort Belvoir, Va. All three children attend Sunday schools that have Negro as well as white children...
Mentioned at the faculty meeting at which these proposals were first discussed, but probably not a matter for immediate action, was the problem of elementary schooling for faculty children. Many professors, dissatisfied with the crowded Cambridge schools, feel obligated to send their children to private schools from kindergarten on up, a severe financial drain on already-constricted budgets. A number of universities have met this problem by setting up experimental grade schools as part of their Schools of Education...
...kindergarten and the first grade, the teacher is supposed to know as much or more about each pupil as the child's mother. She must learn about his interests and his problems, check on whether he can follow directions, see that his sight and hearing are normal, observe how he reacts to his classmates and whether he is overly diffident in "social situations." Of 100 cases of reading disability, Paul Witty once found that 14% had defective vision, 12% were in poor health, 3% had poor hearing. But more important than these physical handicaps were the mental ones: lack...
...Hanukkia. "The boy not prepared to face the future of our people's freedom," Mayor Gershon Agron told them, "is worth only half of one who is prepared to fight for it. It is Jewish deeds and Jewish deeds alone which will count in the final reckoning." At kindergarten parties children greeted their parents with "tickets" decorated with scrawled jet planes and guns to show that the price of admission would go to the National Voluntary Arms Fund...