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Peace Corps officials are distressed by the ubiquitous pictures of Peace Corps surveyors, Peace Corps masons, Peace Corps mechanics--all implying that Peace Corps volunteers need specialized training. Actually, eighty-five percent of the volunteers now active have only bachelors degrees from liberal arts colleges. Very few have special skills. The Corps' officials stress that special training and abilities are much less important than other qualifications. They believe that a volunteer can be taught almost any skills his job may require during the twelve-week training period...
...people get into the program who shouldn't be there; but remarkably few. Five out of every six applicants fail to reach the training program (although at a place such as Harvard, five out of six make it), and more are dropped during training. Only one and one half percent of those who reach field assignments are sent home because of failure to adjust...
...teaching is just a job." Although de facto segregation does not especially concern Lowe, a strong faculty commitment to helping students is obviously inhibited at schools like Timilty Junior High, where there are only six Negroes in a faculty of 40 teachers, with a student body that is 80 percent Negro. The children learn very little, in academic subjects or conduct; attending classes is a pointless nuisance, and less healthy parts of their environments are left the dominant influences in their lives. "Education as it is received now in Roxbury is meaningless. The child sees no relationship between what...
...School Committee's failure to produce, at the NAACP'S request, a time-table of steps for reducing de facto segregation in public schools. The Boston press has consistently added "alleged" to "de facto segregation," but almost no one denies that the Roxbury public schools are in fact ninety percent segregated. Mrs. Hicks only claims that changing the Roxbury situation would involve sending children by bus from one neighborhood to another, an uprooting which she considers cruel. The NAACP, on the other hand, has announced that it too is opposed to the bus solution. The association only wants a committee...
...second major reform, also not passed by Congress, was a plan to prohibit the taxpayer from making personal deductions that totaled less than five percent of his income. The reform was intended to exclude small deductions such as those on normal medical expenses...