Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Worley blew his stack over an irritation familiar to many a classroom teacher -the seeming fondness of administrators for more and more paper work. Fox Lane teachers have always submitted outlines during the summer of what they plan to teach in the new year. Last year they also began filing...
At a two-night hearing in the school auditorium, Worley forcefully stated his case before 700 spectators. Principal Arthur B. Shedd argued that lesson plans were not inflexible, just a guide for substitute teachers. Worley saw it differently: "I concede the right of administrators to compel me to guard the...
Last week the school board ruled that Teacher Worley, however competent, "took this matter into his own hands . . . in our opinion, professional competence cannot be adduced as a rationalization for insubordinate behavior."
Out of a job at week's end (he is appealing to the State Tenure Commission), Worley was not sorry for his stand. "Controls by administrators," said he, "are a scab on a festering sore that hinders imaginative teaching." Twelve parents promptly hired him to tutor their children. Scholar...
Swinging a Pickax. Last year, with the Leeds area short of several hundred teachers, Educator Taylor hit on the sound idea that people in their 30s and 40s might like to switch careers. He aimed at restless mothers of teen-aged children, at bright older men with dull jobs who...