Word: publically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Otto and Mary Krai, who live on a farm near Hastings, Minn., have one main goal in life: they want to educate their son. So last year they took seven-year-old Tommy out of Lakeland-Afton public school after watching him vegetate on a soda-pop diet of "life-adjustment" courses. Mary Krai is a former high school teacher; her 35-year-old husband is a professional mathematician. The Krals decided to school their bright but not prodigious boy at home (TIME, March 2). Tommy's six-or-seven-hours-a-day curriculum: arithmetic, grammar, German, geography, composition...
...listened to four University of Minnesota scholars testify that Tommy's studies do indeed meet the legal requirements of private-school instruction and should be so recognized. English Professor Huntington Brown called Tommy's curriculum "a respectable, oldfashioned, academic program," said he would prefer it to the public schools' for his own children. History Professor David Noble called Tommy's knowledge of history "unique, especially in view of the lack of history teaching in public schools." Electrical Engineering Professor Henry Hartig praised "the discipline and memorizing" that Tommy's instruction involves compared with the public...
...testimony of school officials against the Krals was decisive. They said nothing about the quality of either public-school teaching or Tommy's home instruction. They simply attested to Tommy's absence from school and recited the truancy law. Judge Sandeen's ruling: 30 days in jail (subject to appeal) for the Krals...
Last week Tommy's parents, free on bond, appealed the case to the Washington County district court. As a last resort, they may send Tommy to a private school in St. Paul 25 miles away, but never back to public school ("It would set him back ten years"). Though their rebellion has cost them $1,000 so far, the Krals aim to establish their rights in a legal battle straight to the top. "We may have to mortgage our home," says Mary Krai. "But if it takes every penny, we will fight...
...also the race the professionals dislike most. "I hate Le Mans," growls Britain's Stirling Moss. "It's not a race but a circus." Three hundred thousand spectators flock to Le Mans, spend more than $1,000,000 on other amusements as the sports cars roar over public roads through the 24-hour grind. They roam through 500-odd fair stands, quaff more than 100,000 liters of wine, beer and soft drinks, watch professional wrestling matches just 50 yards from the track, ogle strippers and snake dancers, cram all-night dance halls and, when they run down...