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...trouble started back in 1940, when a Catholic-dominated school board voted 3-2 to incorporate the St. Margaret-Mary Parochial School into the public-school system, entitling it to state support. They changed the school's name to the Grace Avenue School, ordered rent paid to the parish for the building, and put St. Margaret-Mary's eight teacher-nuns on the public payroll. The school stayed Catholic; its pupils went to class half an hour early every day for religious instruction...
...Teachers' Crisis (MARCH OF TIME) puts the pointer on one of the biggest U.S. problems-education. By narrative, charts and acted episodes, the film dramatizes the fact that, with public school enrollments bigger than ever before, and constantly growing, the U.S. has fewer public-school teachers than it had in 1939. Of these teachers many are pitifully ill-trained "emergency" amateurs. (The film shows the too common spectacle of a teacher unable to work a problem she has given students.) Still others are psychologically unfit to teach (the film shows a stupid teacher calling a pupil stupid...
...Buffalo last week, 2,400 teachers walked out of the public schools into a 50-mile-an-hour snowstorm. Bundled up to their ears against the cold, they threw what they chose to call "observation lines" around the schools. Most pickets were as polite as they could be as 534 of their fellow teachers walked through the lines. At first, in the biggest teachers' strike in U.S. history, most of Buffalo's 72,000 public-school pupils had no classes, and the rest had only the barest instruction. Then the Mayor decided to close all the schools (before...
Opening a Times lecture course for New York City public-school teachers, Sunday Editor Lester Markel denied that Americans are a well-informed people. Judging by the way people answer public opinion polls, he said, "20% of the population belongs in the definitely moronic class; another 20% is ignorant and unwilling to learn; another 40% is ignorant but willing to learn, provided that the lessons are made simple. . . . Informed public opinion in the U.S. depends on a group that consists...
...through its woods and fields on thier way to victories at Trenton and Princeton. For some years, Ewing Township had been reimbursing parents out of tax money for bus fares paid by their children traveling to & from school. Several thousands of dollars a year were refunded to parents of public-school children. Then, under a 1941 state law, $357.74 (for a half year) went to parents who sent their children to Roman Catholic schools. The amount was trifling, but the principle was vital to one Arch R. Everson, a townsman who is the paid secretary of a taxpayers' league...