Word: preschooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than 2,200 children's tapes are now on the market, and the inventory is expanding at a breakneck pace. While the vast majority are rereleases of popular movies or TV shows, a small but growing array of original fare is being produced. Much of it is aimed at preschool-age children, who are largely ignored by mass-audience TV. The publishers of Golden Books have begun releasing video versions of their children's stories on 30-minute cassettes. Toys-R-Us, the nationwide toy chain, is now selling the Geoffrey Alphabet Video, which features National Geographic animal footage...
...eight-year-old out of school last week. "In school, kids share their milk, they share sandwiches, they spit at each other. There's urine on the toilet seats. They chew on a pencil and give it to a friend. I have a little one ready to go to preschool, and it's frightening...
...would occur among schoolchildren appears to pose no risk . . . (Most of) these children should be allowed to attend school and after-school day-care . . . in an unrestricted setting." Indeed, there are no known instances of a child with AIDS infecting his parents or siblings. The report did caution that preschool-age children and those who lack bodily function control or who have open sores should be treated with care in order to "minimize exposure of other children to blood or body fluids...
...year-old girl marched into the chambers of Los Angeles Judge Aviva Bobb two weeks ago and said she was afraid to tell the truth in court. Clutching a large teddy bear for support, she had already testified that Raymond Buckey, a preschool teacher, had sexually molested her, then killed a turtle in her presence and warned that her parents would also be killed if she told what had happened. Though she did finally complete her testimony, the girl's father pointed out that Buckey's presence caused her fear, "a good argument for closed-circuit...
...Council Bluffs, Iowa, more than half the 343 students at Longfellow Elementary School boycotted classes to protest the enrollment of a three-year- old girl with herpes. The local teachers' union filed suit to prevent her from attending preschool there. The child, whose name has not been revealed, suffers every five months or so from an eruption of sores on her thighs, forearms or hands...