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...Private Schools Sir / The myopia of those who like the National Council of Chunches, argue against tax credits for parents of nonpublic school students [May 28]. would be easier to accept if only these critics would acknowledge our support, through taxes, of the public-school systems we choose...
Only a few years ago, such a vote would have been almost unthinkable. Most college academics thought of themselves as intellectuals whose interests could hardly be equated with those of organized labor-or even with such lower-level colleagues as public-school teachers. All that has changed across the country as enrollments stagnated, money became tight and jobs scarce. Explains Ellis Katz, a political scientist and a leading union organizer at Temple: "There is a growing sense of alienation and frustration here and elsewhere, a feeling that we're up against a period of anti-intellectualism where...
...they accepted relatively low pay in return for easy work, short hours, job security and relatively high pensions. Now they are demanding ?and increasingly winning?wages just about equal to those in private industry. The effect on budgets has been catastrophic. In New York City, the number of public-school pupils rose 16% during the past decade, but school spending zoomed 207%, largely because of higher teacher salaries...
...White House conference, delegates saw a film about a highly successful program set up by Bronfenbrenner's colleague, David Goslin, of the Russell Sage Foundation. It showed children from the Detroit public-school system spending three days at the Detroit Free Press, learning to relate to the newspapermen and what they were doing, and saying things like "You know, in school you learn a subject, but here you meet people...
Students with private-school backgrounds have a higher probability of dropping out than students who attended public schools, but the public-school students tend to drop out more frequently for psychiatric reasons (although the more serious illnesses are over represented among the private school students...