Kindergarten starts in NH district that fought it

It's the first day of school for kindergartners in a New Hampshire school district that once sought to block funding public kindergarten.

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Tutoring tots? Kids prep for kindergarten

Today, some parents have begun signing up their 5-year-olds for summer classes or even tutoring to boost thei

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Judges: No Bible at Pa. kindergarten show and tell

A U.S. court says a kindergartner's mother cannot read Scripture during show and tell, even if the Bible is the boy's favorite book.

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NH town drops unique public kindergarten suit

A New Hampshire town that challenged a law requiring it to have public kindergarten is withdrawing its lawsuit.

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Unique anti-kindergarten lawsuit endorsed in NH

Voters in a southern New Hampshire town are supporting their school board's legal fight against free public kindergarten.

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Free kindergarten eludes the children of a NH town

Walk into a public school in Hudson, and you'll see no kindergartners finger-painting, pushing around building blocks or practicing their ABCs.

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Ohio School Suspends Boy Over Mohawk

A kindergarten student with a freshly spiked Mohawk has been suspended from school. Michelle Barile, the mother of 6-year-old Bryan Ruda, said nothing in the Parma Community School handbook prohibits the haircut, characterized by closely shaved sides with a strip of prominent hair on top. The school said the hair was a distraction for other students.

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Kindergarten Student Brings Gun to School

A kindergarten student was expelled for 10 days after he brought a .22-caliber gun to school, officials said.

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Parents in the southern Dalmatian city of Trogir have been upset for the last few days because snakes have been appearing in the sandbox at local kindergarten Ribola. They claim the snakes are poisonous, and they have asked the city government for help.

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An assistant kindergarten teacher looked up Thursday and saw a 6-foot monitor lizard in a tree over the kindergarten playground at St. Martin North Elementary School.

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The Aug. 28 weekend started out happily for 5-year-old Max Gomez. The cheerful and precocious boy from Antioch, Tenn., had just started kindergarten and was looking forward to a church trip to the zoo.

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A 5-year-old was left asleep inside his Northside Elementary classroom. His mother began to panic when he did not get off the bus after school.

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Obama Should Release His Coloring Books Update: They Really Do Want His Kindergarten Records!

UPDATE: Truth often has a way of taking on the qualities of fiction. What's scarier is when truth reflects exaggerated satire, as WorldNetDaily, a wingnut website has just done. In an article about the birther movement, WorldNutsDaily makes the following statement:

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Christine Gerzon is the epitome of a kindergarten teacher: warm and wise, quick to get down on her knees to wipe a tear or bandage a boo-boo. ... I teach because it's my calling," she says. "It's my life purpose."

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She is young, 11 years old, but smart. She had to write an essay against several other students.. who were around 10 years older and high school grads... She wants to me a Kindergarten Teacher and College Professor.. or the President

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Zagreb pensioner Slavica Kanic Detelic has signed an agreement with the city government to donate her life savings of 50,000 Euros to a city kindergarten.

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Six-year-old Misha Zhelaev miraculously awakened from a coma.

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School heads inspired by Bob The Builder's scarecrow pal Spud have hired a real "Spud" to protect pupils from aggressive birds.

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A children's day care centre has been shut down after police arrested a 39-year-old female member of staff and seized a significant number of items, including a computer disk full of images.

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Washington is furious over the Interior Ministry's anticipated approval of a plan to build a new hotel in East Jerusalem, just 100 meters from the Old City's walls. The plan, which would see the demolition of a wholesale market and kindergarten, is slated to be approved today.

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A U.S. court says a kindergartner's mother cannot read Scripture during show and tell, even if the Bible is the boy's favorite book.

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Standardized testing in kindergarten. Perhaps unimaginable, but it is happening in some states.

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About a year ago, I made the circuit of kindergartens in my town. At each stop, after the pitch by the principal and the obligatory exhibit of art projects only a mother (the student's own) could love, I asked the same question: "What is your policy on homework?"

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Today's kindergartners prepare for a life of multiple-choice boxes by plowing through standardized tests and toiling over reading curricula.

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Are tests in kindergarten counterproductive?

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BRIDGEPORT -- A kindergarten teacher has been charged with forcing a student to eat his lunch from a garbage can.

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School officials say the charge stems from an incident last week when the boy apparently tossed out his lunch of chicken nuggets and a banana from the school cafeteria.

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California is considering eliminating Kindergarten. Most of the public is unaware but in most states including NYS, Kindergarten is not mandatory. It can be eliminated.

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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) -- A St. Lucie County teacher who let her kindergarteners decide whether an autistic child could remain in class has been suspended.

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Naps for kindergartners are continually getting phased out. Are we pushing young kids too hard to stay awake?

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First Day of School Anxieties

My kids started school this week. Okay, so it was just preschool and they only go for ½ a day two days a week, but for me it was still this big milestone in their lives.

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kindergarten teacher Wendy Portillo told Port St. Lucie police she wanted 5-year-old Alex Barton to hear how his behavior was affecting his classmates.

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