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...haste in which most segregation academies are conceived and born hardly helps. Typical is the new Sandy Run Academy in Swansea, S.C., a rural town whose population of 1,800 is 40% black. Until a year ago, Swansea had escaped all but token integration. But when the school board finally bowed to federal court orders to integrate Grades 10, 11 and 12, Swansea parents boycotted the public school. When the boycott petered out after two weeks, its instigators rushed ahead with plans to start a private high school...
...white citizen-himself a member of the public board of education-donated five acres of land outside town. Twenty others put up $2,000 each to buy materials. Townspeople donated their labor. Construction began last May, and just 31 months later Sandy Run Academy's attractive, one-story brick building was finished. The school is what educators call "a nice plant": its seven classrooms are clean, well lighted and centrally air-conditioned. It also has a number of shortcomings. In a community that sends only 30% of its students to college, Sandy Run offers a rudimentary college-preparatory program...
...public school teacher, insists that he and his staff are motivated by simple love of learning. "We're not concerned with integration, de-integration, or whatever," he declares. "We're concerned with quality education." More frankly, Burton Gunter, a plainspoken Swansea farmer who sits on the county board of education, says that segregation academies are "going to take over everywhere," because "integration is ruining education-it's one of the worst things that ever hit this country, worse than a tornado...
Flagrant Examples. The week began with a cease-fire between the judge and Seale. Hoffman allowed the Panther to be unbound, but Seale still insisted upon his right to act as his own counsel. When a California deputy sheriff testified that he had seen Seale board a plane in San Francisco for Chicago, the defendant leaped to his feet and started cross-examining the witness...
...hangover from the previous boom years is proving hard to cure. Economists predict that prices, which have been climbing at an annual rate of more than 5% this year, will be rising at about a 3% or 4% pace around the middle of 1970 (see TIME's Board of Economists, page...