Word: complained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accepted all sophomores, juniors and seniors who asked to take the course. We couldn't take everybody else but we let in some black freshmen. It may very well be that my lectures are ill-suited for freshmen and sophomores. I put in anecdotes to illustrate points--students complain if lectures become straight factual presentations. I assumed when I saw their backgrounds--and these are great kids, caught up in a great movement -- that these students already knew about Nat Turner and John Brown. But I was assuming too much knowledge on their part. Now I'm trying to give...
...quips one principal, "but all my teachers wear Brooks Brothers suits"-they come early and stay late, refusing to bow to the stale pedagogic commands that emanate from 110 Livingston Street, the Board of Education's central office in Brooklyn. Many have attended law school, and regular teachers complain bitterly that they are in Ocean Hill only to escape the draft...
Prosecutor interrupts to complain that this argument is not relevant...
...Humiliations. As a substitute teacher in ghetto schools, Shanker was earning only $41 a week as late as 1952. Teachers, he claims, were too terrified of their autocratic supervisors to complain about poor pay and ill-treatment; to help them, he became a full-time U.F.T. organizer. "Part of the early motivation of the U.F.T.," he says, "was to punch the administrators in the nose for all the humiliations teachers had suffered...
...should be axiomatic that the ultimate success or failure of black capitalism will depend on the blacks themselves. Negroes, so long denied opportunities, have a strong argument for special help. At some point, other businessmen are bound to complain that such aid gives Negroes an unfair competitive advantage. But for now, black capitalism has proved to be a beneficent form of black power, moving gradually toward the kind of green power that has led every other group upward in American society...