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...still far from extinct. Last week the U.S. Office of Education gave out the facts & figures. Though one-room schools have been folding up at the rate of twelve a day for 30 years, there are still 75,000 left. They account for nearly one-half of all U.S. public-school buildings, employ one-twelfth of U.S. teachers, have an enrollment of one-sixteenth (1,500,000) of U.S. schoolchildren...
...beginners, many of whom will be trained for work as truck drivers, straw bosses and cannery workers. There was an eight-year course for the ten-year-olds, who will have time to learn to be tailors, mechanics, etc. For the youngest pupils there was a full-fledged public-school program...
...There are a few of us public-school teachers . . . still trying to hold out against the pragmatists and experimentalists who would make of public education a glorified vocational training period and hobby show, who would seek to make of school life a series of artificial experiences designed to "mold the child to his environment...
...required all boys to do their share of tidying up, put a half-crown (35?) ceiling on weekly spending money. "We don't want any feeling of sheep and goats," said Foot. He settled on a school uniform of grey flannels and blue blazer, but avoided one public-school stereotype by deciding to do without an Ottershaw tie. Haircuts, laundry and soap were included without extra charge...
Education, Los Angeles Board of Education-altogether, 200 public-school systems and more than 1,000 private and parochial schools. He was selling over a million records a y.ear...