Word: panels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...panel issuing the report, appointed by the public schools' new chancellor, Harvey B. Scribner, was hardly composed of radicals. It consisted of a high school principal, a policeman and one representative each from the teachers' union and the association of supervisors. The four observers visited a 20-school cross section of the city's 92 high schools over a period of two months last spring and polled principals at the rest. Their most optimistic finding was that a majority of the schools were no worse off last year than the year before. Still, the "typical" city high school required...
...Missiles. The panel's simplest recommendations forecast schools resembling prisons. All classrooms would be locked when not in use (many already are) and teachers would have to return their keys to the principal's office before leaving each night. Outside handles would be removed from all doors save the main one, to deter students who had been suspended or expelled from coming back in and roaming the halls. Every student would have an ID card. Since fights often break out in cafeterias, the panel suggested that schools substitute plastic garbage bags for the metal cans that are now turned into...
Many underlying pressures for disruption, the panel conceded, are linked to problems that schools cannot fully control: drugs and racial hostilities. But in addition, "the schools are unstable to a large extent because of student alienation and boredom." The panel implies that the students can scarcely be blamed. City life, jobs, and the makeup of the student body have changed almost beyond recognition. The student population, for example, is now 29.9% black and 17.5% Puerto Rican. The schools' curriculum, however, is not very different from what it was 50 years ago. Above all, the youngsters expressed a feeling of "depersonalization...
...panel found that vocational high schools were the least troubled. Hence it suggested loosening up schedules in regular high schools so that more students could take vocational courses. Huge high schools built for economic reasons should be subdivided into smaller "schools within schools" offering a far wider range of academic courses...
...Francis A. Johnson, a bachelor and retired carpenter from Darwin, Minn., appeared on television's I've Got a Secret and stumped the panel -with good reason. Johnson's secret: a 2,490-lb. ball of twine, the result of eight years' scrounging around his neighborhood. Today the ball weighs close to five tons, is 11 ft. high and is so unwieldy that a railroad jack must be used to wind on new string. Its bulk attests to Johnson's private war on discarded string...