The quality of academic subject matter has been emphasized across the elementary school platform in recent years. But in kindergarten, the emphasis on academics is a bit newer. Whether you agree with this approach or not, the fact is that kindergarten is your child’s first experience of “real” school. Kindergarteners learn lessons in that first …
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Everyone has heard the story of Karen Kane, the bus monitor, being bullied and ridiculed by four seventh grade boys in Greece, NY. It was disgusting; horrible, violent and crude language hurled onto this 68 year-old grandmother who was doing her job. Karen didn’t reach out and grab the ring leader (although he looked quite small), …