Word: junior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black student at Boston's Hyde Park High School, found that "everything is cool right now. Of course all the white kids here are being nice to us, but you know they're sneaky and probably at some point they will try something." Added Malinda Brown, 15, a black junior who is bused to Charlestown High School: "I don't want to graduate from there. I'd rather go to my old school. I felt more free there." Indeed, as in Louisville, there was widespread concern that the uneasy peace in the city might end in violence once the National...
...really not for it," says Woods. "I'd much rather have the boys closer to home." Last year Ken walked to Martin Luther King School, only two blocks from his trim red brick home in the city's predominantly black West End. Byron attended Shawnee Junior High School, ten blocks away. Says the boys' mother, Mary, a medical lab technician at Jewish Hospital: "If there was a better way of bringing about racial equality in the schools, we'd go for it, but there doesn't seem...
Down in Mexico they squeeze peach pits and apricot kernels to get laetrile--active ingredient: amygdallin--and they smuggle it across the U.S. border to patients in the States. A man named Ernest T. Krebs Sr., M.D., first administered the drug in the twenties and Dr. Krebs junior followed his father in 1951, and claimed he could effectively inject the stuff. Trouble is, laetrile breaks down into cyanide, and the Food and Drug Administration has never approved its use. The FDA also says that it can't allow the marketing of quack medicines...
...suburban working-class neighborhood, 70% of the white pupils stayed home, although most of the 300 blacks assigned to the school made the long ride from the city. Many of the black students were nervous as they approached their new schools. As one busload of blacks from Shawnee Junior High School in Louisville drew up to Valley Station High in the suburbs, Leslie Lacy, 17, commented anxiously, "I think I'll paint myself white and go back to Shawnee...
...ideal class size is from 18 to 22 in elementary school, but almost all classes are much larger than that. In junior high school most teachers are dealing with 150 to 200 children a day. The teacher is expected to know them, to love them, to counsel them, to know their home situations. It's impossible...