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...schools are concerned, Los Angeles is not noted as a city of peace and quiet. Not so long ago, right-wing critics raised such a fuss that the schools dropped a special UNESCO-sponsored study program. Later, Superintendent Alexander Stoddard was forced to turn down a Ford Foundation grant for the recruiting of teachers because the same sort of critics charged that the foundation was following the Communist line...
After the fuss that you boys made over a letter I sent you some years ago, I swore that I'd never write another word, but this is a situation that raises my hackles. It's all about this All College Weekend. You must think that I'm just a busy body, but all I say is that I wish some other mother had told me a year ago what I know...
...result of the testimony, State School Superintendent M. Dv Collins ordered an investigation of the whole academy. But Board Chairman Whitman was still troubled; at the hearing neither Long nor Nelms had seemed to understand what all the fuss was about. Even after several days, Louis' backside was still a mass of welts and bruises. "Do you call that a spanking or a beating?" Chairman Whitman had asked. Answered Superintendent Nelms: "A spanking...
...reservoir of potential free maid service in institutions around Boston. At Radcliffe Wellesley, Simmons, and countless other colleges, there are literally hundreds of young maids who would not only profit from the experience of tidying room's but could be easily contacted by the students themselves, and with no fuss about Personnel offices and that sort of thins...
...opening of the session, Lee indicated that he saw little reason for all the fuss. Though he did eventually recommend a slight increase for the schools, he seemed to have all sorts of other matters on his mind. Among other things, he wanted the legislature to provide uniform textbooks for the state, to forbid teachers to engage in politics while under contract, and to put their salary rais.es on a merit basis, rather than on a basis of degrees and seniority. He accused the Utah Education Association of being nothing but a pressure group, said that the state P.T.A...