Word: schoolchildren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...achievement was overshadowed by noise and fury from a few trouble spots and troublemakers, who shamed and embarrassed their fellow Americans. In Texas 25,000 Negro schoolchildren were integrated without incident. But in the farm town of Mansfield, Negro students slated to enroll in the high school were scared off when whites hung a Negro dummy over the entrance. Governor Allan Shivers piously announced he would not use state police power "to shoot down or intimidate Texas citizens who are making orderly protest against [school desegregation.]" But in Clinton, Tenn., where Governor Frank Clement dispatched National Guardsmen to quell shouting...
...they have equal worth in the sight of God . . ." The program can be accepted or not at the discretion of individual schools. ¶ To the mountain of statistics already amassed on the school population, the U.S. Office of Education added the fact that 11% of the nation's schoolchildren are lefthanded. The information is important, said the office, to architects, designers and manufacturers of school furniture and equipment responsible for the planning, construction and outfitting of new school plants...
...schools face? "The size of classes will no doubt grow, and many schools will fall back upon double sessions. The standards of certification may be undermined, and the quality of instruction will decline. Already, 100,000 'emergency' teachers are in service, and almost half the elementary schoolchildren receive instruction from unsupervised green hands. Less than 70% of elementary schoolteachers are college graduates, and only 60% of the college faculties have earned the Ph.D. . . For some subjects, a total collapse is imminent; 46% of American public high schools offer no foreign language at all; 23% no physics or chemistry...
Last week family budgets across the U.S. began to feel the impact. In Seattle barbers boosted haircut prices 25? (to $[.75). In Detroit the board of education warned that hot meals would cost the city's 272,000 schoolchildren 2? more this fall. Milk prices rose a penny a quart in Des Moines; bread jumped 2? a loaf in San Francisco. Diamonds were up 10% in Dallas. Clothing in some areas is going up 71%. Food also is expected to go higher, largely as a result of higher handling costs. Said a Memphis executive: "We're paying more...
...thirds of all the victims were under six years old-meaning that they had not been among the 110,000 schoolchildren who got free Salk shots in classroom clinics before vacations began. Of the five dead, three were under six, one was 28, one 34. Twenty-two of the victims had been vaccinated against polio, but most had had only one shot of vaccine, instead of the ideal three spread over seven months...