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...John J. Collins, 32, a steel salesman; William B. Smeeth. 41, a vice president of a metal-finishing company; and John E. Pfeiffer, 33, president of a business supply company. And when school opened this year, they produced their version of the ideal storybook for the modern U.S. child: McGuffey's Eclectic Readers with all their full 1879 flavor...
...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...
...weeks ago the Krals were in court in Stillwater, answering charges brought by School Superintendent Thomas Campbell that they are violating the state's compulsory school attendance law. The embattled parents proudly reported the texts Tommy uses (one of them is a McGuffey Reader, copyrighted in 1879). submitted test results showing that their pupil has progressed some two years ahead of his contemporaries. The prosecution refused to argue about curriculum, and later, School Superintendent Thomas Campbell's only remark was: "We feel we have a real fine elementary school program...
...Golden Rule Series will help curb juvenile delinquency by exposing pupils to their eleven themes. So far, at least, the children are meeting them halfway. In Cincinnati public schools, which bought sets of books for their fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, boys and girls are even reading the Modern McGuffey on their own time. The favorable reaction of one fifth-grade girl: "Things that are funny really are funny, and things that are serious really are serious...