Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...break down into four groups: the blacks, the straight whites, the hippie whites and Mexican-American Chicanes. The lines are rarely crossed. The noon-hour dance is dominated by blacks; the groups eat separately. There have been interracial fights and class disorders. "It's becoming anarchy," complains a woman math teacher. "Teachers have to defend themselves and not the kids?that's ass-backwards." Annabelle Hall, a white hippie-type student, is disillusioned. "Last year I really tried to mix," she says. "But it doesn't work. Someone has to suffer?you can't get a school together...
...teachers were proud of having one of the highest college-entry rates in the Atlanta area. Carroll High School parents in Monroe, La., objected to downgrading the all-black school to ninth grade only. Carroll recently built a 4,000-seat stadium and a new science and math building; it has won four football championships in its class and boasts the top band in the state. Says its principal: "There are years of hard work in this school. There are years of suffering...
Some of Eames' award winning films include "Blacktop and Parade" (1950), "A Communication Primer" (1953), "House" (1955), "Toccata for Toy Trains" (1957), "Math Peep Shows" (1961), and "Think" (multi-screen...
...inmate" of one of the BIA schools. The school offered no courses in math higher than arithmetic, no languages, no electives, and only elementary science classes. What we were offered was regimentation, strict segregation from the white kids in town and an insidious way of robbing us of our dignity by the staff, both Indian and white...
...parents of the kids is that they become immediately fearful that I'm presenting such a romantic picture of the theatre-you know, with the bright lights and the grease-paint and all that-that I'm "making actors." I'm no more trying to do that than a math teacher is trying to make mathematicians or a physics teacher is trying to make a scientist. I simply feel that if the performing arts were investigated at a public school level, we wouldn't have such trivia written today, because the audience level of intelligence and demands would not permit...