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However, Ellen Bates-Brack-
ett, an administrator who is on
the search committee, said the
committee exhausted all options
in its search for a director and
simply came up empty.
"Ending this program is
hard," she said. "But it doesn't
mean someone is to blame."
Ms. Bates-Brackett said more
than 30 teachers inquired about
the position and several were of-
fered the job. At least one
woman told the committee she
did not want the administrative
responsibilities and others indi-
cated the pay was too low, given
the long hours.
"It's a big job," Ms. Bates-
Brackett said, noting that the di-
rector is responsible for
licensing, curriculum and meet-
ing with parents, in addition to
teaching.
In the end, she said, the com-
mittee was caught in a Catch-
22: With the director's position
unresolved, only about eight
children had signed on for fall
classes. But those same num-
bers may have made the job less
attractive to prospective candi-
dates, who raised concerns about
their ability to recruit children
for the school.
Recruiting never seemed to be
a problem during Ms. Amit's
tenure. A native of Scotland, Ms.
Amit came to the United States
in the late 1970s. She joined the
school in 1981 and two years lat-
er became its director, where she
said she has enjoyed complete
control.
Unfailingly enthusiastic in
her teaching, she has long sold
parents on a "developmental"
approach to preschool education,
which holds that children should
be allowed to tap their creative
potential at their own speed, in
their own way — "by doing
rather than by listening," as she
puts it.
It's an approach that takes a
dim view of rote teaching meth-
ods in which students learn as a
group rather than as individu-
als.
"Any time you see three chil-
dren bringing home the same art
piece, something's wrong," Ms.
Amit said.
"Differences ought to be cel-
ebrated. If a child creates a blue
ostrich with 10 legs, no adult
should be able to tell that kid
that he is wrong ... This is their
school."
The announced closing means
that students will have to be
placed quickly in other schools.
The fate of the gray ranch-style
schoolhouse also remains un-
clear.
Ms. Bates-Brackett said a
group of former Workmen's Cir-
cle teachers may rent the facil-
ity next year to run a similar
program. The question becomes:
Will there be any children left to
teach?
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