Preschool Discourages Children From Saying ‘Best Friend’

The inmates are running the asylum. I am not making this up.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/04/18/preschool-prevents-students-saying-best-friend-georgetown/

Julia Hartwell loves her dolls, arts and crafts and like most four-year-olds, she has a best friend. However, that’s not a term Julia can use at Pentucket Workshop Preschool in Georgetown.

Her mother, Christine Hartwell says, “The teacher told her she couldn’t say that there in school.”

The Georgetown preschool offered an explanation to Julia’s parents. Saying the term best friend “can lead other children to feel excluded” and it “can ultimately lead to the formation of “cliques” and “outsiders.”

The preschool wrote, they “encourage children to have a broader group of friends, and foster inclusion at this particular age.”

 

O.M.phng.G

 

My parents enrolled my in school a year and a half earlier than most kids.Because of that I was a lot smaller than my classmates and making things worse was I was a late bloomer. I was picked on, taunted, and all the other things that happen to smaller kids. In high school my football coaches said I was too small and too weak to play against the bigger guys. In order to toughen me up they literally beat the hell out of me to to see if I was the wimp they thought I was, or if I was tough enough to play. I was a starter during my junior and senior years.

It was those experiences that now allow me to easily brush off the attacks by the left when they call me a racist, a homophobe, and all the other names I've been called just on this board alone. They seem to feel that because they need judgement free safe spaces when someone calls them a name that somehow calling me a name will make me think my world is collapsing because that's what happens to them.

The left wants to raise snowflakes and butterflies. Is it any wonder that liberal men are confused about their gender?

 

You know a society has lots its way (and its mind) when it starts thinking like bored Kings. Kings who've tired of philanthropy, battle and occupation, finding a new distraction in the vanities of courtiers.

Novels and plays have been written about such stuff, yet here we are ...

 

This is what private education looks like, and it will only get worse if EduSec Davos has her way. Careful what you wish for my conservative brethren...

 

It sounds like you have a lot of hidden anger and resentment. Do you think that beating your kids toughens them up?

 

Are you saying being beaten or raped doesn't build character?
Well, in the poster's instance, merely beaten. But what physical abuse should not qualify as character builiding?

As to the OP, 3 yr olds have best friends?

 

Lol...typical lib response. What toughens people up is working at hard work they don’t want to do. There’s a reason why we cons laugh at liberals all while they run to judgement free zones in safe spaces when they see Trump chalkings. What space did you choose?

 

By the way, can you tell me when was the last time you saw a conservative protest, riot, loot and then burn down his own neighborhood. I’d really appreciate it.

 

I chose the United States Air Force where I was responsible for the delivery of oxygen to flight crew members flying above 10k unpressurized in support of covert air drops over northern Iraq.

Quit using such a broad brush. It shows your ignorance of simple facts.

 

Sorry to hear that you were abused as a young child. Hope you're doing ok now! <3

 

So, big deal.Take your kids to another school. Pre-schools are private; people can run them anyway they want. Jeeze, talk about making a mountain out of a molehill.

 

we are creating a generation of beta males
no wonder many women are turning to lesbianism being attracted to butch females masculine men are becoming harder and harder to find

 

It was an insane stupid comment by the teacher who is undoubedly a liberal

 

Actually you are, in a way, by failing to follow the PF rules and posting an invalid thread.... There's a world of difference between your made up thread title "Best friends no longer allowed at a Massachusetts preschool" and the title of the article "Preschool discourages children from saying 'Best Friend'".... If you know the difference between the 2, shame on you...... if you don't, shame on whoever educated you.....

OTOH, while I can appreciate the theoretical goal of this school 'policy', I disagree with the application. It's NEVER a bad thing to have a best friend and letting them know that,and I suspect some children never have this vital childhood experience. It's good for both children to have, and be, a best friend and a school shouldn't discourage this. It's the actions of excluding others from your circles and playing exclusively with one child that should be monitored and corrected when needed.

 

All I see is a post from someone who received a lot of abuse as a child and is likely to pass it along to his children given the excuses he gives it. You also appear to lash out at others which may explain why you get called a racist or homophobe (I haven't seen personally, but I will take your word for it) as often as you are. You may have CTE.

 

Ah, the free market at work. Go on, do tell me how this is a symptom of "liberal public schools".

Flies, after all, will lay their eggs.

 

Having an older brother and sister was all that was required for my youngest grandson to realise if he wanted something he had to go for it. Funnily enough he has always also shown empathy far in excess to expectation at his age.

 

Foster or force?

 

Do 4 and 5 year old preschoolers have best friends? Uhhhhhhhhh, yeah. What, do you think the mother in the story is lying?

 

I know personal observation is anecdotal, but I have noticed a distinct increase in people I know (colleagues, friends, casual acquaintances, etc...) in young women being interested in older men. I know of several 40-something men dating 20-somethings. (These are just my observations as I am not yet in the age range to have personal experience in such a relationship)

I never really gave it much thought beyond noticing the increase, and I cannot say I have spoken to any women about why they are attracted to older men..... but it makes me theorize that 20-something men really are just a bunch of pajama boy beta males. If a 24 year old woman wants to date a real man, she has to go older.

 

I had the opposite situation. I was huge ... always the tallest and heaviest in my class (ok, maybe a little fat).

I survived. And there were no p.c. rules to protect and coddle me. By high school, I had complete control over my weight and dated the most beautiful girl in the school the entire senior year.

If I had been protected from fat shaming, I probably wouldn't have lost the weight and my life would have been very different.

 

Maybe. Still, private institutions get to make their own rules. And if Devos gets her way every school in America will be private. Let that sink in.

 

This has been true since the dawn of time...

 

The public schools are even more insane than private schools