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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hospital felt moved to reinstate him. He withdrew the charges against McLean in return for regaining employment and receiving back pay for the five weeks he was suspended. Evidently fearing Malin's ability to rally support among the workers in his unit, the hospital reassigned him to the adult section, which is separate from the Children's Center. By now, Malin had immersed himself in an independent study of labor law; he knew he had the legal right to seek reinstatement in his original job. More charges were filed with the NLRB...
...sexual experience, such as being the partner of a relative or of an older person, need not necessarily affect the child adversely." Money and Co-Author Gertrude Williams complain in their forthcoming book Traumatic Abuse and Neglect of Children about the public attitude that "no matter how benign, any adult-child interaction that may be construed as even remotely sexual, qualifies, a priori, as traumatic and abusive." One who commits incest, say the authors, is like "a religious deviant in a one-religion society"thus neatly planting the notion that opposition to incest is quite like religious intolerance...
...look down on sex researchers as pushy, ham-handed amateurs, and the arguments for incest will do little to change that view. The literature shows absolutely no attention to psychological realities: that often an adolescent and surely a small child can hardly produce anything like informed consent to an adult it depends on for life and guidance; or that the lifting of the incest barrier would invite the routine exploitation of children by disturbed parents. The sex researchers may get the shocked public reaction they expect, but their arguments are truly too simple-minded to earn it. Critic Benjamin DeMott...
...Close elementary libraries. Axe elementary science programs. Increase class size 15 per cent. Lay off 210 staff. Move the central office to a new, smaller home. Stop sabbatical leaves for teachers. End the cultural resources program. Halt elementary athletics. Close down the bilingual summer school, the evening program, and adult diploma classes. Stop teaching foreign languages at the elementary schools. And stop all raises of any sort for teachers...
Unless the council votes to override the cap or the State allows Cambridge to exceed the limit, 210 staff members, including 80 teachers and 40 part time aides and tutors, will be let go and sabbatical leaves, elementary athletics, foreign language, science and library programs, evening school and the adult diploma programs will be closed down. Four schools will also be closed, the central office relocated, and negotiated step raises for teachers...