Word: complain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would protect illegal immigrants from exploitation by making them legal. As of now, illegal aliens form a cheap, defenseless pool of workers, unprotected by American labor laws. As Secretary of Labor F. Ray Marshall has written, "Undocumented workers are subject to blackmail of every conceivable sort. If they complain to their employers about their paltry wages and their unsafe working conditions, they run the risk of being turned in by those owners to the INS." Almost slaves now, these people would gain, from Carter's proposal, the rights of American workers...
...their part, the teachers criticize the students for skipping class, for disruptive behavior in the halls and for general apathy. They complain that their charges cannot read and write adequately. "They are so poor in basic communication," laments English Department Head Leah Caliri...
...There are things to be learned by those not quite good enough for Algebra 1 but who try and do their best." Civics Teacher Jerry Kotsovos, who is held in awe by students as Marshfield's most demanding teacher, feels that "students aren't being challenged enough. They complain that I make them work, I make them think. But they're glad afterward." He conducts his classes as vigorous discussion groups Margaret Burdg, who has the prim and proper air of an old-fashioned English teacher, team-teaches with History Teacher Connell an English-history course called American Culture...
Some teachers complain bitterly about laxity?of both school and parents. They say that a student-first attitude undercuts their classes and that many students are pouring too much energy into jobs in order to support their affluent lifestyles. Fumes one teacher: "One kid told me today that he hadn't been in class for three days because 'Man, I just can't get up.' I offered to call him at home. That's our job? But we can't teach them if they're not here...
Many students have gone to the department offices in person to complain about the high tennis court rates, Janus said yesterday, adding that if students begin to complain louder and more often, the current policy stands a change of being revised...