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Jeering Crowd. Told by McCoy to assemble in the auditorium of Ocean Hill-Brownsville's Intermediate School 55, the teachers faced a group of angry parents and Negro militants who repeatedly disrupted the meeting with screams and howls. Auditorium lights were flicked on and off, and spectators taunted the teachers. "They hooted at us, cursed us, called us fagots and honkies," reported one teacher. "They said we'd be going out in pine boxes...
Shanker immediately declared that the agreement had been broken and that the strike was back on. At the risk of being jailed for leading a strike that was illegal under state law, he also raised the stakes by insisting that his teachers would not work unless McCoy and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville com mittee are fired. "Mob rule must go," he said. Leaders of the local committee conceded that they no longer could control neighborhood opposition to the return of the teachers and did not intend to try. At week's end the schools were again shut down...
Power Grab. The tragedy of the strike was that it was so easily avoidable. Privately, Shanker and McCoy had arranged a deal with Lindsay under which the ousted teachers would return to their schools for a few days. The community would temporarily tolerate them; eventually, the teachers-who could not have worked effectively in the hostile atmosphere-would be quietly transferred. McCoy, however, was unable to restrain the more militant blacks in the community. And Shanker used the breakdown of the agreement as an excuse to try to make his union the dominant power in the city's increasingly...
Despite their confrontation, both Shanker and McCoy have proved their willingness to deal with the real problem of New York City's schools: the fact that instruction somehow fails to benefit enough students, particularly those from ghetto areas. A 19-year veteran of the city school system, McCoy has experimented with ungraded classes, team teaching, tutorials and other progressive techniques. He complains that an "elite society of professional educators is not truly interested in the education of children but just in security." He also argues that only parentally controlled schools, rather than a central board of education, can achieve...
There was a measure of merit in both men's arguments. Yet, while the quarrel went on, the ones who suffered most were those whom both Shanker and McCoy insist they want to help: the children in the classroom...