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Egan, in fact, was reinstated. He retired as a first-grade detective with all privileges and pension rights in March 1972. A quote from the decision of the judge was to the effect that the handling of the case by the police department had been shocking. When the whole truth was brought out in the courtroom, the attorneys for the City of New York recommended that this decision should stand without challenge...
...settle in the city's integrated West Mount Airy district. As each of their three young children entered the nearby school, Lois Stalvey began to get involved with their classmates, more than two-thirds of whom were black. One day in 1967, when Noah was in third grade, she broke up a fight between him and an older boy named Jelly Stowe. When she invited Jelly home for milk and cookies, Noah said, "Mom, you gotta be crazy! He's the baddest kid in school!" Two months earlier, Jelly had slapped Sarah Stalvey's second-grade teacher...
Belligerent Porcupine. Of the many poor black children whom Lois Stalvey came to know and tried to help, none was more pitiful than Almira Stampp. When Noah and Almira were in the second grade, their white teacher made Almira stand in a wastebasket all afternoon-because, Noah explained, "she wouldn't say 'Yes, ma'am.'" Refused permission to go to the bathroom, Almira wet her pants. "See the pig in the pigpen," said the teacher to the class. Treatment like this inevitably had its effect on Almira (whose mother was a drug addict and whose father...
...bully. Lois Stalvey got to know Josh too, and soon realized that his aggression was simply a cover-up for his embarrassment; although he was clearly intelligent, Josh could not read. "I've always felt guilty about Josh," confessed the black teacher who had taught him in second grade. "When I had him in my class, 17 out of the 30 children had reading problems, and I was allowed only one hour a day for reading." Despite Lois Stalvey's efforts, Josh-too proud to accept help and burdened by the school's indifference-made no progress...
...embarrassed by the alcohol problem to do much more than reluctantly admit that it exists. One system that has faced up to it and conducted reliable surveys is in the suburban county of San Mateo, south of San Francisco. There, in 1970, school officials found, 11 % of the ninth grade boys (13-and 14-year-olds) said that they had drunk some kind of alcoholic beverage 50 or more tunes in the past year; in 1973 the figure had jumped to 23%. Among senior class boys (17-and 18-year-olds) the percentage of such relatively frequent drinkers rose during...