Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However . . . items picked up from a New York newspaper and reprinted in your magazine are entirely uncorroborated. For instance: "At Manhattan's Haaren High . . . five fires were set in a single classroom in a recent week. Only two were reported by the teacher for fear his disciplinarian slip might be showing." . . . There were two fires, both set by one pupil. Prompt action was taken. The pupil was caught, he appeared in court and was placed on probation. Within the memory of the principal, no comparable incident has ever occurred at that school . . . "A teacher recently stopped a fight between...
...when the minister sees the Christian world view penetrating an immediately relevant human situation," he writes, "that a sermon is born." Cleland finds his "relevant human situations" wherever he happens to be; his sermons to Duke students are likely to take off from yesterday's classroom, last night's fraternity dance or Saturday's basketball game. They are peppered with anecdotes, delivered with fine timing...
Forty-nine percent of the 105 superintendents interviewed reported receiving objections in a recent 12-month period about views expressed by teachers, Gross stated. At the same time, he added, 13 percent received demands that teachers express certain points of view in the classroom...
...week, a band of vandals broke into Manhattan's Junior High School 52 for a lively round of delinquents' sport. They plugged up a sink on the top floor, turned on the faucets and let a flood of water spread throughout the building. They invaded a science classroom, smashed its vials, overturned desks, scattered papers and exhibits over the floor. They sprayed halls and corridors with fire extinguishers, partly burned a school banner, slashed furniture in a teachers' lounge, spattered paint through two classrooms, tore up books in the library. But to veteran Manhattan teachers, all this...
...Manhattan's Haaren High . . . five fires were set in a single classroom in a recent week. Only two were reported by the teacher for fear his disciplinarian slip might be showing...