Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hounded by lurid headlines; the New York City public schools last month suspended some 900 classroom toughs after a series of blackboard-jungle incidents ranging from rowdyism to rape (TIME, Feb. 10, 17). But the suspensions only postponed the basic problem: Where can the tough kids go to school...
...avoid street incidents, "700" boys arrive and leave slightly before children in nearby schools, are escorted to subways by a teacher, who pays for their rides out of public funds. Both schools require neat dress; the Brooklyn unit even insists on ties. In the classroom, the boys usually keep up a cocky, running banter with their teacher. But they can talk with the weariness of old age about their problems. "I'm a troublemaker," said one eighth grader. "I started everything that ever happened...
During the wave of rapes and stabbings in New York City schools this winter, the South's segregationist dailies pounced jubilantly on the story as a Yankee-sent sermon on the evils of mixing the races in the classroom. When a Brooklyn principal killed himself during a grand jury investigation of violence at his junior high school (TIME, Feb. 19), Mississippi's extremist Jackson Daily News front-paged the story with a picture of a Negro policeman guarding the school. Caption: "Mixed school violence led to this...
...Self-Exile Marson is finding plenty to do away from his classroom. He is writing a book and a pamphlet expanding his attacks on the nation's schools. This summer, as he has for the past three decades, Marson will run his boys' camp in New Hampshire. But next fall, his critique of American education squarely on the record. Schoolmaster Marson hopes to be back in a classroom giving his fact-packed lectures on Shakespeare and syntax that so well prepared his Boston Latin boys for college...
...bowed for Teacher Ansley; in class, all set to work to cover in seven weeks the 485-page textbook that was supposed to last all year. Though the pupils clearly dislike the bowing, and being punished by time-consuming chores, they took to their new life with surprising enthusiasm. Classroom silence, they found, made paying attention a breeze; required note-taking and constant review made exams a snap. When the experiment ended last month, the students decided that, minus the bowing and scraping, they would like to make the Soviet-style system permanent. The experiment had certainly produced results...