Because it was our first experience with school at all for our son, we wanted it to be something that would fit with our general attitude toward schooling and something that we could make the transition easy for him.
"Almost half the dropouts [take place] between the first and second grades, and we attribute this to a lack of school readiness," says De Vera, "Some pupils' first experience of school is at age seven or eight".
My grandson came home from his first experience in school this year and reported that at the start of class, they recited the "American prayer".
The first experience with school should be fun, interesting, caring.
Her first experience of theatre, at school, wasn't positive: "People would come in and do Shakespeare.
This study was limited in that it only looked at first year medical students after their first experience in medical school with role-play.
She first experienced discrimination at her high school in southern California, where the boys' team got to play indoors and the girls were forced to play outside on the blacktop.
Not all men are violent of course, but global evidence shows that, in most cases, men who are violent or discriminatory are copying behavior that they learned as children, sometimes through first-hand experience both at school and at home, and often against their own mother.
"I think it's worthwhile because it means I will have a better experience at school, and other people will have a better experience at school," said upcoming Kaiser fourth-grade student Elizabeth Peters, 9.
Like many people, the chef first experienced a harvest festival at school.
