Word: preschooling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dakota, received a Christmas card that read, "A 1995 New Year's wish for you and your family: death and destruction." Since 1992, the family had been getting hate mail from their neighbors. At one point, the family's youngest son, Casey Maynard, then 5, was told by a preschool playmate that the Maynards' house was going to be burned down. "Mommy, why do they hate my brother?" he asked his mother...
...next week?" Lottie Holloman, 68, her great-grandmother--and her guardian since Tonesha's mother, a drug addict, abandoned the girl to foster care--credits Bailey with inspiring her to buy books and read to the child. Children in the program get priority for slots in Bowling Park's preschool...
Once start-up costs were absorbed for remodeling school basements or buying modular units, the preschool and afterschool day care became mostly self-supporting: 85% of the $2 million program comes from parents' fees. "Schools should be a community hub," says fourth-grade teacher Darlene Shaw. In three decades at Sycamore Hills, she has witnessed profound change. "Out of my 23 students today, only one has a stay-at-home mom," she said. "Without consistent, quality day care, kids flounder. And for kids dealing with divorce and single-parent families, school is their stability when things are going crazy...
...need is to become miniature adults. "There is a desire to have children grow up quicker and quicker," says Fassler. "This manifests itself in many ways: how quickly can we teach them to read, toilet train them; how early can we get them into the most exclusive preschool?" Jack Wetter, a clinical psychologist in West Los Angeles, says he observed a goldilocked four-year-old in preschool. "I asked her what she was doing, and she replied, 'Can't talk now. Working on Workbook 2. Going to Workbook...
...coprophagy and rape with sharp objects (in one case, a "sword in the rectum"). Fantastic physical traumas (e.g., the sword) yield not a shred of physical evidence. One child said her teacher had turned her into a mouse. For a myriad of such offenses, New Jersey preschool teacher Margaret Kelly Michaels was given 47 years. (Her conviction was overturned in 1993--after she had served five...