Word: planning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your whitewash of this youth culture may well precipitate the flood that will inundate us all. They plan to take over the helm, and apparently you've welcomed them aboard-but how long could even TIME stay afloat if manned by people who don't have enough sense to come in out of the rain...
Only about 70 of Leake County's 2,100 Negro schoolchildren have elected to brave harassment and enroll in white schools under the "freedom of choice" plan that has been in effect since 1965. Most attend all-black schools. The schools and their physical facilities are no longer unequal to those used by white children. But the education is, since segregation denies black children the opportunity to mix with whites. "How can you bring a black child up separately and then put him out there to face the man and expect him to do well?" asks Ferr Smith...
Until the Nixon Administration granted it a year's respite, Leake County was scheduled to integrate its schools this fall in accordance with a plan drawn up by HEW's Office of Education. Under the program, one of the county's seven "attendance centers," or groupings of schools for grades one through twelve, would be abolished, while two presently white centers would become integrated high schools. Three Negro centers and one white one would become integrated elementary schools. Attendance at all would be governed only by residence...
There is little doubt that carrying out the plan would have caused some of the "chaos and confusion" of which the Administration warned. Desks would have to be moved, blackboards raised or lowered, textbooks shifted, transportation arranged and teachers reassigned. But the Administration's reasons for seeking the delay were political, not logistical...
Though May has not yet set any limit on how long he will remain as dean, he said he does not plan to stay in the job indefinitely. "My commitment is to teaching and research, not to administration," he said...