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School Cancels Kindergarten Play So Kids Can Focus on College Prep (Elmwood NY)
Fox News Insider ^
| Apr 28, 2014 1:26PM
| (Outnumbered)
Posted on 04/29/2014 4:04:08 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Ask a kindergartner what his or her favorite part of the day is and they probably won’t answer, “Prepping for the SATs.”
Well, one school on Long Island, New York is canceling its annual kindergarten play because it believes five and six year olds should focus on college and getting a job.
The principal at Avenue Primary School in Elmwood wrote in a letter to parents: “The reason for eliminating the Kindergarten show is simple. We are responsible for preparing children for college and career with valuable lifelong skills and know that we can best do that by having them become strong readers, writers, coworkers and problem solvers.” …
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: elmwood; liberalagenda; longisland; newyork
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posted on
04/29/2014 4:04:08 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
....”coworkers and problem solvers.”
At that age, that is exactly what they are doing.
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posted on
04/29/2014 4:08:37 PM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: lepton
Playing...not plays.
Doh!
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posted on
04/29/2014 4:09:49 PM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: Olog-hai
It’s well known in psychology that people learn best when what needs learning is done in the context of a game. The school, if that really was the reason for cancelling recess, is inhibiting the kids from learning.
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posted on
04/29/2014 4:09:54 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: Olog-hai
I wonder what was the name of this annual two-day play...
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posted on
04/29/2014 4:39:25 PM PDT
by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: Olog-hai
The principal at Avenue Primary School in Elmwood wrote in a letter to parents: “The reason for eliminating the Kindergarten show is simple. We are responsible for preparing children for college and career with valuable lifelong skills and know that we can best do that by having them become strong readers, writers, coworkers and problem solvers.” What a contemptuously arrogant and completely obvious bald-faced refusal to explain the real reason for this ridiculous decision.
But that's the Left - they stick it in your face, and demand you not only accept it, but in doing so, declare your own stupidity and obedience to their lies.
This is classic tyranny.
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posted on
04/29/2014 5:03:00 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: treetopsandroofs
Found
video from the 2013 show....
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posted on
04/29/2014 5:15:05 PM PDT
by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: treetopsandroofs
Haven’t watched it all, but 7:08 or so shows a menorah.
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posted on
04/29/2014 5:16:55 PM PDT
by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: treetopsandroofs
The US flag is prominently featured, too.
Wonder if this was another CAIR op.
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posted on
04/29/2014 5:19:30 PM PDT
by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: Olog-hai
The world needs ditch diggers.
To: Olog-hai
And this, boys and girls are why kids start acting out and shooting up schools. They have all that pent up energy and hormones with no release valve.
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posted on
04/29/2014 5:56:47 PM PDT
by
bgill
To: bgill
More idiocy from “educators”...many of whom are in the moonbat-idiot class.
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posted on
04/29/2014 6:26:12 PM PDT
by
ogen hal
(First amendment or reeducation camp)
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