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From: lisa@mit-vax.UUCP (Lisa Chabot)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: the dark forces
Message-ID: <4925@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-Mar-85 19:25:58 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 22 19:25:58 1985
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Reply-To: lisa@mit-vax.UUCP (Lisa Chabot)
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
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Keywords: pre-school
Summary: 

I'd like to agree about pre-school being a good idea.  My logical niece loves
it and her mom who doesn't have a paying job devotes a lot of energy to
maintaining a pre-school environment she approves of; one of the bees
currently in her bonnet (and also in some of her friends') is that she doesn't
want to see too much stress placed on getting the "correct" answer.  I think
some of the other folks are yuppies who've bought in to the pushed child
approach.  But pre-school isn't for teaching your kid arithmetic when they're
three, it is for socialization.

Just like Alice (the niece mentioned above), I was an only child until about
kindergarten.  But I grew up in trailer parks and they always segregate
the families with kids, so unlike most housing areas, our neighbors always
had a couple of kids and there was a fantastic playground (or so it seemed
to us) that we could usually go off to even unescorted sometimes.

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