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Glimp accepted an appointment last spring to fill a school-board vacancy after another committeeman stepped down...
...survey also disclosed that about 75% of the schools polled still have policies that permit such punishment. Ten percent of the reported cases of pupils being struck occurred despite regulations prohibiting physical punishment. Striking was most common in the public schools, the early primary grades and in the Southern states, and was least frequent in suburban schools. A child is four times more likely to be hit by a male teacher than by a woman. Defending their heavy-handed discipline, 63% of the teachers said that they favored school-board policies permitting them to strike youngsters anywhere except...
Quarrels Over Responsibility. With the approval of the city's board of education and the help of a $59,000 planning grant from the Ford Foundation, the Ocean Hill-Brownsville experiment was set up last summer. Local parents elected a committee to run the eight schools in the project and were given power to select principals, allocate funds, and set educational goals and standards. The city board of education supposedly retained only the supervisory authority, but from the start, there were quarrels over divisions of responsibility. School-board officers feared that the committee had been taken over by Black...
There was almost nothing in Leo Held's life that could have presaged the end of it. Held, 40, a burly (6 ft., 200 lbs.), balding lab technician at a Lock Haven, Pa., paper mill, had been a school-board member, Boy Scout leader, secretary of a fire brigade, churchgoer and affectionate father. Certainly he bickered occasionally with his neighbors, drove too aggressively over the hilly highways between his Loganton home and the mill, and sometimes fretted about the job that he held for 19 years. But to most of his neighbors and coworkers, he was a paragon...
...times, Director Volker Schlondorff tries all too obviously to point up parallels between the violence of the academy and life in Hitler's Germany -as when Torless rather ponderously testifies at a school-board inquiry into Basini's death that "there is no boundary between a good world and an evil world: they run together and very normal people can spread terror." Otherwise, Young Torless, adapted from the novel by Robert Musil, is a perfect-and perfectly chilling-evocation of the underside of a vanished...