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...Boston's 1000 black teachers crossed picket lines." What I actually stated was that the radio reported that one half of the 225 members of the Black Educator's Alliance, not all Boston teachers, voted Monday night at Freedom House to go to school to protect endangered black schoolchildren, particularly in racist areas; they additionally stated that despite this action they were in full solidarity with the aims of the strike...
...Back to school," once a pleasant, end-of-summer phrase, has virtually come to mean "Back to the barricades." In much of the U.S. last week, schoolchildren and their parents were concerned not with education but with busing, racial hostility and strikes. As buses began to roll, carrying black and white students across town to achieve integration, there was smouldering resentment in many communities and, in Louisville, outright violence. Boston, preparing to open its schools, feared the same. Millions of children could not even attend classes. Their schools were shut down in a growing wave of strikes by teachers angered...
...opening of another school year approaches, the U.S. faces fresh agonies over an old and divisive issue: desegregation of the public schools. Racial integration of the nation's classrooms remains the law of the land, but public support for large-scale busing of schoolchildren to achieve that goal, never very broad to begin with, now seems to be eroding rapidly. The Ford Administration has made no secret of its own distaste for busing. At the same time, the courts have helped create confusion by making contradictory rulings in two large cities that are struggling to satisfy desegregation orders...
...which remained generally quiet last year, has grown increasingly restive about undiminished white opposition to busing. Indeed, sparks have already begun to fly. Last week several hundred members of the Committee Against Racism marched on city hall to demand that antibusing activists be indicted for violating the rights of schoolchildren...
...1850s, "are going to be the most fluent and melodious-voiced people in the world, and the most perfect users of words." The line was more hopeful than prophetic. Today, many believe that the American language has lost not only its melody but a lot of its meaning. Schoolchildren and even college students often seem disastrously ignorant of words; they stare, uncomprehending, at simple declarative English. Leon Botstein, president of New York's Bard College, says with glum hyperbole: "The English language is dying, because it is not taught. " Others believe that the language is taught badly and learned...