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...McCoy looked haggard as he addressed over 800 people in Lowell Lecture Hall. He wore an "Abolish Rotc" button on his lapel. He was pessimistic about the possibility of regaining community control in his school district...
...McCoy said he was not surprised at the student demonstrations which have followed in the wake of the teacher strike settlement. "Once these kids realize the inferior education they're getting, they may well become revolutionaries. Their parents are already on that road," he said...
...McCoy called Ocean Hill-Brownsville a corrupt district. "Many of the teachers we removed were unfit. We didn't want them because they didn't think our kids were capable of learning," he said...
...kids aren't uneducable," McCoy said, "they're the victims of uncommitted teachers and 'separate but equal' facilities." He said there are 9000 students and only eight schools in Ocean Hill-Brownsville. "These children are two and one half years behind white students of comparable grade-level. Many of them still cannot read or write in the 7th grade," he said...
...heart of the problem, said McCoy, lies in whether the black community will be allowed to execute the right of community control over its schools--a right which belongs to every other community...