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...schools reflected this state of affairs, with the southern schools mostly white, better funded and academically superior. Two years ago the State Commissioner of Education decided to bus white kids north and black kids south to increase racial integration. To white parents this meant sending their kids into dangerous, crime-ridden neighborhoods and inferior schools simply to please the state government far off in Albany. To principals and staff of the whiter schools, the plan meant a decline in academic excellence, an increase in disciplinary problems, and probable racial strife. The plan quietly died under the pressure from middle class...
...poverty brings with it crime, as it always does. A middle class neighborhood with its attractive targets, bordering on a poor one will attract criminals, and the margin between the poor and crime-ridden neighborhood and the sate, middleclass one will gradually shift. The poverty and crime advances, crushing everything in its patn. The middle class liberal knows poverty breeds crime, but he remembers his own poor-but-honest background and begins to associate the crime with the black race. Of course he is quick to point out that "not all blacks are bad. There are good and bad blacks...
...York: Ed Koch, 52, seemed destined to represent his relatively affluent Manhattan congressional district for the remainder of his political career. What, after all, could a balding, puckish Greenwich Village bachelor with a near-perfect A.D.A. record have to say to the rest of the hardbitten, crime-ridden, near-bankrupt city? Quite a bit, as it turned...
...then there's the self-consciously artistic way Horovitz sandwiches the action between the refrain of a popular song wafting in from the wings. The sappy, off-key message is that Murph and Joey, poor lost crime-ridden souls, are "lookin' for your door and can't find it." Horovitz's technique is too glib, too conventional...
...phase plan, for '71 and '72, aimed at achieving 30% black enrollment in all but a few of the county's schools, but also called for the closing of nine of the previously black schools, either because their facilities were inadequate or because they were in crime-ridden neighborhoods. Blacks were particularly rankled by the shutting down of two relatively new schools, while the oldest white school in the system, built in 1898, remained open...