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Preschool Panicking (Dave Barry)
Miami Herald ^
| Oct. 31, 2004
| Dave Barry
Posted on 10/31/2004 6:25:59 PM PST by nuconvert
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posted on
10/31/2004 6:26:01 PM PST
by
nuconvert
To: nuconvert
Colleges only look at what you did in high school, like your grades and SAT score.
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posted on
10/31/2004 6:31:33 PM PST
by
Ptarmigan
(Proud rabbit hater and killer)
To: Ptarmigan
Colleges only look at what you did in high school, like your grades and SAT score. There's no humor in that.
To: nuconvert
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posted on
10/31/2004 6:34:49 PM PST
by
upchuck
(Pajamas? I don' need no steenking pajamas!!)
To: nuconvert
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posted on
10/31/2004 6:34:49 PM PST
by
netmilsmom
(Conservative women smile with their soul!)
To: dd5339; cavtrooper21
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posted on
10/31/2004 6:35:48 PM PST
by
Vic3O3
(Jeremiah 31:16-17 (KJV))
To: nuconvert
Parents can make a choice to either allow themselves to be coerced into buying this pressured-up crap, or NOT. This certainly isn't rocket science.
My kid was at the young end of her class with an August birthday. The pre-school tried to get us to hold her back from starting kindergarten because they said she didn't hold her crayons and use scissors well enough. We listened, and after deciding they mostly just wanted another years fees from us, told them a firm "no" and enrolled her in kindergarten.
She graduated as an honor student and is doing just as well in college studies.
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posted on
10/31/2004 6:36:12 PM PST
by
prairiebreeze
(It's an honor to recognize those who've served in the United States military. We are grateful.)
To: nuconvert
Muuuummmm-------paste. I loved it. Held me over till lunch.Recipe for paste. Get a clean sheet of papter. Make about 4mm drops of paste.(hide is slide in place in desk) Wait till just slightly dry====texture of a marshmellow. Scrape off and eat as needed.
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posted on
10/31/2004 6:39:45 PM PST
by
therut
To: nuconvert
So true, My friend has his kids in a Exclusive Private school in San Francisco at $25,000 a year Each!!!
Did I mention they are 8 and 10!
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posted on
10/31/2004 6:40:24 PM PST
by
cmsgop
( Bong Hits, Fraggle Rock Reruns and DU is no way to go through Life....)
To: Boxsford
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posted on
10/31/2004 6:40:28 PM PST
by
nuconvert
(Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.)
To: therut
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posted on
10/31/2004 6:41:55 PM PST
by
nuconvert
(Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.)
To: nuconvert
I'm a little older than Dave Barry but my school didn't even have a kindergarden. You started in the first grade and that was that.
The only choice was between the two first grade teachers and that choice wasn't up to the student or parents but the school.
I was horrified to learn that I would be in Miss Thelma's class because word on the street was that she had an automatic paddling machine.
To: nuconvert
Give your kids the BEST possible education: homeschool them.
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posted on
10/31/2004 6:45:12 PM PST
by
clee1
(Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves.)
To: clee1
Give your kids the BEST possible education: homeschool them. And if that's not possible consider a church operated school.
To: Graybeard58
"an automatic paddling machine"
Lol. Didn't that come up in a "Leave it to Beaver" episode?
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posted on
10/31/2004 6:47:37 PM PST
by
nuconvert
(Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.)
To: Ptarmigan
Ahhh....but What high school?
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posted on
10/31/2004 6:50:36 PM PST
by
nuconvert
(Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.)
To: Ptarmigan
Colleges only look at what you did in high school, like your grades and SAT score.Depends on which college. Alot of them want to see outside activities, i.e. sports, clubs, stuff like that.
Also, they do take into account what high school the applicant went to.
Some parents believe that the right preschool gets you into the right high school which gets you into the right college.
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posted on
10/31/2004 6:51:08 PM PST
by
Sonny M
("oderint dum metuant")
To: nuconvert
Lol. Didn't that come up in a "Leave it to Beaver" episode? Could be but I really did hear about it when I was about 5 or 6 years old and that would make it about 1950.
To: Graybeard58
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posted on
10/31/2004 6:53:24 PM PST
by
clee1
(Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves.)
To: nuconvert
Or learning disabled gifted?Idiot-savant school is where I wound up.
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posted on
10/31/2004 6:53:42 PM PST
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
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