Brookline’s Kindergarten Miracle.
By Jim Conley • January 1st, 2007 • Email This Post to a Friend •
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Remember back in March of 2002 when the Brookline School Committee lowered the age requirement to attend kindergarten? Remember how nearly every kindergarten teacher in Brookline told the Committee that doing so would result in a flood of new registrants, many of whom will demand much more time from them?
Remember that?
Apparently no one on the Brookline School Committee does, as they are surprised by a 25% increase in kindergarten enrollments (link to a Globe article).
What is the Committee’s explanation for the surge? They say people are moving from Cambridge to put their kids in a Brookline kindergarten class.
Ay yi yi.
Jim Conley is publisher of On Brookline.
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Resolved: That Brookline annex (from Boston) that portion of Commonwealth Avenue between Essex Street and the BU Bridge and merge with Cambridge.
Then Allston/Brighton could become a separate municipality that might better deal directly with Harvard’s institutional blockbusting expansion in that community which Boston political powers have long treated as a stepchild.
Uh.. that makes no sense. Cambridge has the lowest age requirements for kindergarten in the state. They have a 2 year program in all the schools where kids have to be 4 by April 1 of the calendar year that they start school. So, it’s gotta be something else…