Elimination of Mt. Hope's Purple Playschool Leaves Void in Curriculum
Students and parents lament loss of hands-on child development program.
At Mt. Hope High School the elimination of a beloved program has saddened some students and parents. The Purple Playschool, part of the child development curriculum, was cut this year after an audit last spring raised a number of questions. The Purple Playschool was founded over twenty years ago and had been administered for the past 12 years by Laurel Thayer, a teacher in Family and Consumer Sciences. As part of the program, Bristol parents dropped their 3 to 5 year-old tots off to the high school twice a week allowing students to work one-on-one with the children to make observations and understand a variety of developmental milestones. The program had been receiving money from a Perkins grant. When the state did an audit of Perkins-…
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