Word: barre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such notions, though, did Barr no good in the new era of the Woodstock Nation and its admiring Dalton parents. As one Dalton mother said of her nine-year-old, "he's not our son; he's our friend." Barr was so out of it that he even tried to ban blue jeans and long hair on boys. While teaching a course on Marxism, he actually started wearing an American-flag pin on his lapel. When Barr began referring to staying after school as "detention," one father growled, "Will the children be allowed one phone call to their...
Plots and Plots. Last year, Barr expelled five sixth-graders, four for what he labeled "extortion," the fifth for stealing $15 from a teacher in order to meet the alleged junior extortionists' demands. As some parents saw it, this was a case for psychiatry, not punishment. They were aghast when Barr reportedly chortled to a school assembly, "I guess we got rid of those little gangsters, didn't we?" In a showdown board meeting last November, a faction of anti-Barr trustees asked for the headmaster's head. Eventually they were mollified by the appointment...
...Even so, Barr's supporters suspected his critics of plotting to fill two board vacancies with anti-Barr members, who would then swing a new vote to kick him out. Three weeks ago, the supporters mailed each parent a 21-page memo fingering Psychiatrist Myron Hofer, president of the P.T.A., as a chief anti-Barr plotter. Since Hofer represented the P.T.A. on the board, the memo urged parents to vote him out of office and thus oft7 the board...
...weeks ago, a traumatic P.T.A. meeting ensued. Dr. Hofer, who once staged drug seminars at Dalton, was more or less accused of condoning pot for students. His defenders accused Barr of keeping black and Puerto Rican students out of the school. When Barr wandered in, his mawkish remarks about his uncertain future at the school drew catcalls ("Where'd you leave Checkers?"). One of his defenders received a Nazi salute. The combatants almost reeled back to their chauffeured limousines double-parked outside the school...
Last week Dr. Hofer's fate (and indirectly Barr's) was put to a mail poll umpired by no less than the Honest Ballot Association, which usually keeps things clean in union elections. Although the results are binding on no one, the parents voted 435 to 300 against Hofer. Mercifully, spring vacation began the next day. Barr vanished to heal his wounds on a two-week Caribbean cruise. But with national politics in a lull, Dalton's activist parents are sure to resume their new recreation of baiting or boosting Barr when the beleaguered headmaster returns...