Word: attending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parents when they are first told that their children must be bused away. I'll lay my body in front of any bus. I'll chain myself to the school doors," cried Douglas Easter of Boston's Jamaica Plain, when he was informed that his children would have to attend a school three miles away...
...Another key to the success of Mobile's plan is its system of "split zones." which preserve at least a semblance of the neighborhood school system. A zone that includes black and white neighborhoods is drawn around each school, permitting the majority of students within the area to attend it; the rest are brought in by busing. Yet a further inducement was the decision of Superintendent Collins to install some much-needed educational reforms, including upgraded, "individualized" curriculums that let children proceed pretty much at their own pace...
...anther, interracial friendships, while not necessarily widespread, do develop In Harrisburg one small boy told his teacher: "I didn't realize there were so many white people before." At the very least students develop a certain canniness. Says Jerome Kretchmer, New York City's environmental protection administrator, whose children attend integrated schools: "As far as safety is concerned, the mugging problem is a social problem. Unfortunately, we have to make our children aware of the possibility that it's going to happen to them...
When the school transfer was ordered, Nephew, an IBM programmer, and some friends asked the pastor of St. Matthew's Roman Catholic Church for help. Father Leonard Burke organized the parents of about 200 children, most of whom continued to attend Fifield in defiance of the edict; school officials allowed them in the classrooms, though the children were not registered for credit. Picket lines were set up around the homes of school committeemen who had voted for the busing plan...
...have sent them to any public school in Richmond-the Governor's mansion is excluded from busing plans because it is on state rather than city land-Holton has put his elder daughter, Tayloe, 15, into a high school that is 88% black; Anne, 13, and Woody, 12, attend a middle school 86% black, and Dwight, 5, a school that is 50% black. All seem to have thrived...