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accurately reflected what goes on at the center. Then came the wait for the grade to be posted.
“I was really anxious,” Mrs. Flinchum acknowledged, adding that she worried particularly over whether the lack of degrees would rule out accreditation. But the anxiety was eased with the assurances from a state day care licensing agent who predicted that the center would certainly win the Academy’s endorsement, and then the letter arrived with the formal award.
But acceptance into NAEYC ranks doesn’t imply a 100 percent score on the Academy’s standards. “It doesn’t mean we’re perfect,” Mrs. Flinchum emphasized. “They sent a list of suggestions along with the accreditation, and we’ve already started working on those,” she said, citing as an example the after-school program for older children which has
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