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These and other American films about children are like a progressive preschool. In them, youngsters learn social skills through fantasy war games. Most of the favorite American kids' films, from The Wizard of Oz to E.T. and Home Alone, are rites of self-reliance. Children face adult obstacles (or rather, superhero torture tests) and in surmounting them become adults (or rather, Hollywood's ideal of adults, as kids with weapons). Real parents are redundant in fables for latchkey kids; all authority figures are oafish, evil or, mostly, absent. The lost child finds his own way home...
...months of expert baby-sitting at a Manhattan preschool (mornings only...
Sadly, to borrow the words that once appeared on report cards, new studies confirm that Head Start "does not live up to potential." The well-known formula cited by Clinton ("One dollar spent now saves three later") reflects the success of one non-Head Start project at the Perry Preschool in Ypsilanti, Michigan, in the 1960s. The latest investigation of Head Start itself, by the Health and Human Services Department, calls many of the approximately 1,300 Head Start programs that currently serve about 700,000 children poorly run and unsuccessful at providing youngsters with even basic care. Yale Professor...
...light of the editorial staff's sloppiness, it was wholly inappropriate for The Crimson to label the opponents of the move as immature students who have not learned the preschool lessons of sharing. The "juvenile whining" that The Crimson criticizes has created important negotiations that will hopefully lead to an expansion of both Gov Docs and undergraduate study space. Had the staff consulted any of the parties involved with the issue, it would have known that. Instead, The Crimson rushed to a conclusion before learning the facts and displayed the very immaturity and irresponsibility that it criticized. --Sean M. Becker...
...games. They just don't make for the same excitement. The corporate lawyer banging on the glass screaming "You SUCK!" is an image no one, especially the corporate lawyer, could ever imagine. The Radcliffe grad in a plaid ankle length skirt asking friends and strangers for the best private preschool would never belch. "Fat this, Terriers!" from the balcony...