Word: mcguffey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would have hated to cool his heels in an ordinary American school." What she delightedly found, reported Novelist Johnson, was "a very odd school indeed." It was San Rafael's booming 3R school, and odd was the word. How can a school that uses the antique McGuffey Readers be booming...
Thriving on dissatisfaction with public schools, 3R bans every possible "frill"-dances, student government, fund drives, P.T.A., and all athletics except for daily calisthenics. For a tuition of $900 a year, it offers old-fashioned work, using McGuffey and Noah Webster's 1783 Bluebook Speller (last revised in 1906). The only concession to modernity is grouping by ability in each subject, not by grades, so students can whiz through faster. Every 3R kindergartener writes and understands numbers up to 25, and some to 100. They begin reading at 4½. And it's all done without student geniuses...