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...explanation of this difference lies another facet of parent-school interdependence. The Newton board takes great care to send out to all parents in the community extensive reports of each of its meetings, and encourages parents to talk with teachers, principals, board members, and the Superintendent. "Anybody in this city can walk in the door and speak his peace," Harold Gores, Newton Superintendent of Schools, maintains. This encouraging of intimate, individual parent-school contact prevents a community from looking upon the school committee as a power structure that must be beaten down in order to have...
...demanded that European History no longer be taught in the public schools; their demand was heeded. The Lakewood experience worked for good, the others worked for ill; but nonetheless they are all of the same fabric: the overstepping of parental bounds into the professional academic field. Even in Newton, parental groups have been able to convince the School Committee into providing Driver Education courses in the high school: a simple, reasonable request, but in a less-educated community, a school board could be similarly convinced to initiate, or cancel, other, and more significant projects out of desire to please parents...
...unification of the community is the role of the non-parent, the citizen who asks, "Why should I pay school taxes? I have no kids in school"; and smiles happily when groups form which seek to keep school construction and taxes at a low rate. Administrators in Newton are now actively seeking a way to interest the non-parent in the schools and keep him from causing trouble...
Scarsdale High School, about twenty-five miles north of New York City in Westchester County, is certainly not typical, but many of its problems and methods are representative of the suburban high school in general. Along with others, such as Newton, New Trier, and Shaker Heights, Scarsdale is considered by many educators as one of the nation's finest public secondary schools. Like most of these communities, Scarsdale has one main advantage in the effort to secure good educational facilities--it is a very wealthy village...
...contrasts do not exist merely between public and private schools. American high schools range all the way from Scarsdale High and Newton High (above right) which have many advanced courses of the college freshman type for able students, to the poorer high schools which spend a disproportionate amount of time in driver training, cooking, shop, home-making, and other such pursuits, to the very worst institutions in the country such as the school shown above (left...