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...have no way of knowing how many of Superintendent Smith's Kindergarten mamas are truly considering their children's best interests, and how many are just anxious to have a glorified baby-sitter for a few hours a day [Sept. 5]. Won't parents ever learn to stop pushing their children to satisfy their own selfish desires? Immaturity in a child meeting the school situation for the first time often means headaches for the teacher and parents, and sometimes develops in the child a dislike for school that can not easily be erased. Perhaps this incident will...
...hard aboil with scalding controversy of an entirely different sort. The cause, as the suburb's Reporter put it, was that "the fury of a woman scorned can't hold a candle to the heat generated by a parent whose child has been refused admission to kindergarten...
...years, Park Forest's kindergarten admissions policy was conventional: any child who became five before Sept. i automatically got in. Those who reached that age before Dec. 31 had to take a standard test; last year about 10% of those tested were flunked. But then Park Forest got a new superintendent for its School District 163. A conscientious educator, Superintendent Gerald Smith concluded that the tests had become too easy; so routine, in fact, that parents knew exactly how to cram their children for them. Convinced that kindergarten is harmful for children who are not ready ("Their attention span...
...Guarantee. In June, Smith mailed out kindergarten-registration blanks to parents whose children will become five between September and December. This, it was explained, was part of an effort to "maintain the highest possible academic standards." Though a bit miffed to find that the examination fee was $7, parents nevertheless cheerfully registered 203 kids...
About The American Shrimp Girl [TIME, July 25]: I should like to suggest to Painter Philip Evergood that he concentrate on painting sea gulls, shrimp and fish and that he leave the painting of typical American girls to artists more capable than he. For TIME to mention his kindergarten canvas in the same breath as Hogarth's masterpiece [see cut] is nothing short of sacrilegious. Before Evergood can be a good painter, he will have to learn the meaning of humility...