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...dibs on the Rotary's dozen cars, but eventually the kids upped the rolling stock with their own scooters, wagons and doll carriages. They also learned "what was right and what was wrong," says First Grade Teacher Ruth Barlow, since the kiddy cops handed out speeding tickets with Ribicoffan severity ("usually to the same youngsters," says Mrs. Barlow). Transgressors were tried by a "judge" sitting atop teacher's desk and wearing teacher's sweater backward as a robe. By the first graduation exercises, even kids once addicted to pedaling along at dizzy speeds were reformed enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Readin', Ridin', & 'Rithmetic | 1/27/1961 | See Source »

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