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Threats & Torment. Just when or why Goldfarb made his decision, no one could say. But instead of responsible action, the tragedy merely provoked the ugliest kind of recriminations. At the funeral, President Charles Silver of the Board of Education and Superintendent of Schools William Jansen charged to newsmen that Principal Goldfarb had probably been driven to suicide because a grand juror had threatened that he might "be indicted." The jury's foreman immediately denied the accusation, countercharged that the suicide was the result of Goldfarb's fear that his superiors would take revenge on him for cooperating...
...nine months of looking for a successor to retiring School Superintendent William Jansen, 70, the New York City Board of Education seemed to favor one man. Dr. John J. Theobald, 53, has no degree in education and never taught in a public school, but as the energetic president of municipal Queens College and more recently as New York's deputy mayor, he has come to know as much about his city and its huge (1,000,000 pupils) school system as any man. Last week, after looking over 24 candidates from all over the U.S., the board announced that...
Unofficial segregation is nothing new. But in its attempt to do something about it this year, the New York municipal government has been caught in a vise of public opinion. William Jansen, Superintendent of Schools, has been pressured on one side by the parents of "segregated" pupils, and on the other by the Teachers' Guild. Last month 150 teachers quit rather than teach in "difficult schools." Jansen called for volunteer replacements from New York's 40,000-man school staff...
...make up for the lack of experienced teachers in these schools, the Parents in Action Against Educational Discrimination, a Negro and Puerto Rican group, has charged that Jansen "sends in 22-year-old girls right out of college." Moreover, a great part of the teaching is done by substitutes who are, to understate the case, inadequate. One man with an art instruction license is teaching social studies, math, English, science, and health education. This disturbed him not at all. "These kids don't know very much and don't want to learn anything anyway," he stated...
...second approach has been to transfer students instead of teachers. According to Jansen, 5,000 students, mostly non-whites, have been transferred to less crowded schools. But in over one-fourth of the cases, this entails traveling as much as two miles to class...