Lupin, a word!

[melody_wood14]

Melody
Head Start is Pre-Kindergarten(4 year olds) in the U.S. In some 
places areas it is only half a school day and in others it is a full 
school day long. Then you have Kindergarten and so on. My kids 
started learning how to read in Pre-Kindergarten.

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "(Mrs.) Lee Storm (God is the 
Healing Force)" <n2fgc at ...> wrote:
>
> | > Dung.
> | > (BTW, I've never heard any non-pretentious native of the UK use 
the 
> | > word 'kindergarten'. We call it 'nursery school' 
or 'playgroup'.)
> | 
> | 
> | Potioncat:
> | Oh, I remember nursery school! In our area of the US they were 
> | privately run day cares. At least, they were an eon ago when I 
> | was that 
> | age.
> 
> [Lee]:
> Yeah, and now we've got Day Care, and then Head Start which is what 
some
> call the Kindergarten program now, I think.  
> 
> <Sigh> Times change, words change.  Forty-plus years ago, I 
remember Nursery
> School, Kindergarten, Elementary School, Junior Hi and then Hi 
School.  Now
> the system is sorta split in most places into Head Start, Primary 
School,
> Middle School, (which in some places takes in part of Junior Hi) 
Junior High
> (which in some places is still separate from Middle), and Hi 
School.  I
> can't help but think the system was revamped to handle the 
population
> growth. :-)  Just my opinion.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Lee :-)
> (Who liked the simpler life.)
>