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...York Times this past Friday reported just such a story. A woman in Chicago called up the special truancy hot line and admitted over the course of a number of days that her 15-year-old daughter had not returned to school after the first few days of kindergarten. In fact, besides occasional trips to the neighborhood grocery store, her daughter rarely left the house...
...never really figure out Mia, despite her witchin' and bitchin' and eventual tearful communion with a former kindergarten classmate (James LeGros, in a quirky if slender role) over a book whose title, "The Scream of Rabbits," might just as well have replaced the equally incomprehensible "Myth of Fingerprints." No less unfathomable is Scheider's stony-faced patriarch, who offers no clue to any of his actions or offenses against his children. Danner gets next to nothing to do as the sensible, yet oddly passive mother; and Kerwin's Elliot, a psychotherapist with no apparent therapeutic skills, remains a mere cipher...
This is school? Kindness is an ancient virtue, but the idea of formally teaching six- and seven-year-olds to give compliments in an inner-city public school is brand-new. In New Haven all students from kindergarten through high school take part in the district's Social Development Program, which weaves "emotional learning" exercises--like the ball-rolling game--into the fabric of an ordinary school day. School officials say problem-solving and stress-management skills are as essential as literature and long division to a '90s education. "We believe it needs to be comprehensive, just like science...
Edwards, who enrolled in the program 12 years ago as a kindergarten student, said she initially felt "horror getting into a bus to go to a place far away" and that she then underwent "trials and tribulations of racism, sexism and classism...
Rarely has an individual captured our imagination and held our gaze as singularly as Princess Diana. We were introduced to her in 1980 when the shy kindergarten teacher linked to Prince Charles stepped gingerly into the spotlight in a diaphanous skirt. Since we began tracking her unique style and popularity in an April 20, 1981 cover story, TIME has put Diana on its cover eight times, more than any other royal--including Queen Elizabeth, who was Woman of the Year...