Word: preps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this country, too much loose talk. America needs an iron hand." To which the men, archetypal 1930s lounge lizards with beautifully cut moustaches and social registers in their back pockets, respond: "Hear, hear, quite right, D.B." and thump on the table in a hollow variant of old-time prep school enthusiasm. The movie's scene could just as easily have had California regents like Edward Carter, the president and co-owner of a department store chain, gasping with admiration at the words of Reagan, another regent at that meeting...
...parents sent me to a Catholic boys' high school-a good college prep school, very strict, excellent teachers. When I turned the legal drinking age right after I graduated from high school, I began going to the gay bars...
...large city (see chart page 18). The board wanted them to work an extra half-hour; it also wanted to cut some teachers' sick days from ten to five a year and reduce the number of their preparation periods. Most elementary teachers have two 45-minute prep periods a week; high school teachers have five. Shanker admitted that prep periods, which are nominally intended for schoolwork, are often used by teachers to "smoke, knit and shoot the breeze." But the union refused to compensate for a reduced number of teachers by raising maximum class sizes above the 32 students...
...school day. Considering the financial crisis, that did not seem an unreasonable sacrifice for New York City's teachers, who have among the best fringe benefits in the nation. Their teaching day, for example, is only six hours and 20 minutes; yet most elementary teachers also have two "prep periods" a week, while secondary teachers have five. The school board did offer a small salary increase for the teachers, who now make between $9,700 and $20,350 per year−but Shanker rejected it as "miserly." Last week the teachers demonstrated their support of his bargaining position when...
...dean's office tries to grant as many requests to people as possible, yet at the same time they are careful not to overload an entry-way with too many similar types, such as prep school people or pre-meds. "Many people ask 'Give me a Californian,''' Young says, "but the dean's office won't sacrifice an entry's geographical variety unless it is unavoidable...