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Dorian Brooks, 13, is a black eighth-grader at Pontiac's Eastern Junior High School, a once all-black school that is now 60% white as a result of busing. A shy, pretty girl who would like to be a social worker, Dorian does not mind being bused. "I like to meet a lot of different people," she explains, "and I was glad when the busing started. At the beginning they didn't socialize at all, the blacks and the whites. We had a Sadie Hawkins dance, and I only saw one white couple, and they left five...
...youth, Mujib developed a strong antipathy to British rule. While a seventh-grader, he was jailed for six days for agitating in favor of India's independence. A long bout with beriberi left his eyes weakened, and Mujib belatedly finished high school when...
...building, and police confiscated pistols, hunting knives, and clubs crudely fashioned from pool cues with nails stuck in the end. Last year Harrisburg, Pa., undertook a citywide busing program involving 5,000 children. "I thought the purpose of busing was to integrate the schools," says one tenth-grader, but in the long run, the white kids sit m one part of the bus and the black kids in another part...
...says Mary Beth Brill, an unabashed eighth-grader in the "new town" of Columbia, Md. Yet the Wilde Lake Middle School (grades 6 through 8), which she now attends, looks at first like a model of irresponsibility. It lacks neat classrooms, desks in rows, hands raised before speaking. Many of its 750 students sprawl in conversational clusters on the carpeted floors. They spend most of their time jumbled into three vast rooms called "pods" that hold 250 kids apiece. Since the pods are really one-room schoolhouses, Wilde Lake sounds like a hive of teen-agers doing their homework with...
Last fall, several earnest students petitioned Jones to close the hatch and abandon the new ways. Says self-aware Eighth-Grader Pam Kerby: "I'm one of the lazy ones, and here I don't push myself." But even Pam has just completed a demanding report on Latin America, and most of the students are ending the year with an air of steady purpose. Last week several groups seated on the floor kept on working right through one of the school's two daily bells (for lunch and dismissal). Finally one girl remarked, "The bell rang...