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...coaches, who had struck to get extra pay for their sport chores. Long after the coaches had gone back to work, their pupils had not. The kids simply changed their slogan from "No sports-no school" to a call-to-arms with more appeal: "Shorter hours, more sports, less homework...
...wrote to Dorothy Dix, Anne Hirst, Beatrice Fairfax, et al., to ask what to do about a boy of eleven who was unstrung, disobedient and disrespectful, who stole and refused to do homework. (She took these symptoms from an actual case, whose real trouble, she explains, was that he was unloved.) Some suggested punishment or a stiff school far from home. Beatrice Fairfax sternly warned against psychiatry. Elsie Robinson (author of I Wanted Out) gave what Mrs. Steiner considers the only ethical answer: "The problem of a disobedient child is far too delicate and complicated to be solved...
...starting bonus of one credit in physical education (because they've had G.I. exercise) and one-half unit in social science for having gone through Army or Navy indoctrination courses. The 39 now enrolled (ranks: private through captain) cram 30 hours of classwork and 30 hours of homework into each week, which will allow them to complete a year's schooling in twelve weeks...
...well filled with dances and such. First off this afternoon there's the affair at St. Ben's Center, then tomorrow, dances at Curry and Pine Manor (see Mrs. Inglis for reservations). We saw Professor Hanson about this former affair and he promises eider to all ensigns and light homework for all middies interested (see Mrs. Bonn for reservations...
...conversion to world federalism, he wrote soon afterward: "The eyes of a schoolboy often wander from a seemingly insignificant lesson on a black board to something bigger, perhaps more important. ... So, too, do the thoughts of a schoolboy, for sometimes his thoughts move from sports and petty quarrels and homework to the bigger things . . . like war and peace. -It is that way with...