Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teacher's Lesson. Strong man of the corporal's guard defending the subdivision was Homeowner Theodor Repsholdt, a high-school teacher. "I am a resident of Deerfield and teach your children American history," said he. "I'm a Lutheran and I'm in favor of an integrated community." Catcalls from the floor: "Resign! Fire him." Repsholdt squared his shoulders, continued: "One thing is fortunate. If there is any shortage more acute than the shortage in housing, it is the shortage of teachers. I'm not frightened about losing my job." Repsholdt got a big hand...
...just about the finest teacher they knew. And academic standards are high in the suburban Westchester County area, home of many a well-heeled Manhattan commuter with an eye on Harvard for his son. But last week able, balding Teacher Worley, 38, was fired. Reason: he refused to file lesson plans with the front office two weeks ahead of class...
...night hearing in the school auditorium, Worley forcefully stated his case before 700 spectators. Principal Arthur B. Shedd argued that lesson plans were not inflexible, just a guide for substitute teachers. Worley saw it differently: "I concede the right of administrators to compel me to guard the footbridge on the day of football games, to patrol the boys' washrooms, and to supervise night basketball games. However irksome I might consider those demands, they do not trespass on the one area of education that is mine alone-the classroom. As long as my competency is accepted, I am the expert...
...accepted moral responsibility for ensuring that every citizen should get an adequate diet. "And if the U.S. offered to construct such a distribution system," adds the official drily, "I do not think such men as Nehru and his Cabinet ministers would take kindly to our giving them a lesson in morals...
...developed almost by accident. The daughter of an Italian-descended shoemaker, Anna grew up in Wayne. Pa., made her debut at seven, singing Mighty Lak' a Rose in a school assembly program. After that she sang in choirs, school recitals, at weddings and funerals, without ever taking a lesson. When she left school, she turned down a Hollywood offer because she wanted to, become a nun. Later she decided that she lacked a true vocation, won a scholarship to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute singing Butterfly's Un bel di, the only operatic aria she knew. When...