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Virtually all the community schools place ultimate authority in a parent council, usually including all the school's parents, and a parent executive board. Some schools are more purist than others about how much power should be delegated to hired school directors, and how much the council should involved itself in day-to-day matters. Usually, the more intimate and limited the community served, the more jealous are parents of their power. Both the Roxbury Community School and the East Harlem Block Schools a community school in New York's East Harlem, serve circumscribed areas and have nosy parent groups...
...first thing to get a hold on about this book is that from the standpoint of the academic purist, it's not literature--which is hip because it's not supposed to be literature from the standpoint of the academic purist. What it is is a small portrait of a man, a hell of man who also happens to be a hell of a writer...
...Kahn's main solution lay in finding modern-day equivalents for Shakespeare's topicalities and fads. I am by nature a purist, and do not condone tampering with works of art. But this is one of the rare exceptions. The purist approach does not work; Kahn's does. It's as simple as that...
They discussed the current situation. One of them, a high-school teacher, was particularly gloomy -- all of Papandreou's American-oriented educational reforms had been revoked. The desiccated old system of instruction was being re-established, complete with "purist" or academic Greek, as the obligatory school language. The "purist" is an artificial language despised by all artists and writers; Kazantzakis once went to jail for agitating against it. But those who want to "purify the nation" have made it a symbol of their crusade...
Buckley père revered, above all, the English language. "Father was always a language purist," says Buckley. "Bad grammar was for him like dirt under the fingernail." Buckley developed his father's respect for words, and used them freely, furiously and all too literally. While attending Millbrook School in New York, he appeared uninvited at a faculty meeting and proceeded to complain about his teachers' politics-too liberal, of course. Even his father felt constrained to admonish him: "I like very much your attitude of having strong convictions, but you will have to learn to be more...