Word: childrene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have a greater say in their children's future...
...city's minorities, it is not a question of dullness or excitement, but survival in the urban jungle. Properly dissatisfied with the inferior education that most of their children were receiving, the city's Negroes long ago began pressing for local control of schools in black neighborhoods. With encouragement from Lindsay, the Central School Board last year grudgingly met them part way, offering black communities limited autonomy in three experimental districts. If the districts succeeded, the prospect was that the entire school system-a "pathological bureaucracy" in the words of New York University Professor David Rogers-would...
Almost ignored were 1,100,000 students, who are not only losing classroom time but possibly suffering serious psychological damage from the conflict. "The children sense that the order of society is very fragile and unstable," said Dr. Bertram Slaff, a psychiatrist at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital...
...deeply frightened about the implications of all this, and of such acts as teachers showing hatred of one another." The children most in need of schooling are the most affected, noted Harry Beilin, a professor of education and psychology at the City University of New York. He said: "The long-term effect of the strike is an undermining of the ability to respect authority." For those in high school, particularly students who hope to go to college, a protracted strike could be catastrophic...
Many Negro students would probably be better off not even attending the typical New York school. A splendid tool in assimilating and liberating past generations of immigrants, the city school today seems incapable of helping the ghetto children. Each year they fall farther behind. In one Manhattan school, 47% of the second grade are below the national reading norm; in the third grade, 52% of the children were behind, while 72% of the fourth grade lagged. The notion is often advanced that black parents do not care. The experience of Ocean Hill-Brownsville, as well as simple observation, says differently...