Marcia Kirwan Standley Papers

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P.M. The public schools around here are absolutely abominable, & the parochial schools though plentiful & scholastically adequate are quite rigid & old-fashioned in their approach. I hear that they still force left-handed kids to write with their right hands, & that went out with the bustle. There are a couple of well-regarded private schools in Cambridge, but I'm not sure that they're not just secular versions of the parochial schools. Boston College, which is run by the Jesuits & isn't far from where I go to school, has a Montessori School, & I'd really love the kids to have the experience of starting their educational experience under that technique. It would blend well with the advanced approach of the schools, public & Catholic, in the Palo Alto area. They start them at around 3 in a Montessori school & they progress at their own speed in an ungraded situation. I haven't looked into it yet, but I'm sure going to give it a try before getting involved with anything else. You don't suppose Chas. McKee has any pull there, do you?

This summer is what we're really looking forward to. I'm going to get the kids signed up for swimming lessons somewhere, & we're going to take advantage of all these ponds & beaches around here. The kids already got their feet in the Atlantic, at the