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...French schoolchildren, who have long quaked at their formidable baccalauréat exam, last week were faced with an even worse fate-no exams. Demanding an $80 million raise, France's 325,000 teachers threatened to suspend next summer's bachots. For 180,000 lycee students, no bachot meant no entrance to universities, no draft deferment-and, for men, a possible call to Algeria...
...this basis, plus fierce parental pressure since World War II, U.S. Catholic schools, which form the world's biggest private school system, have grown much faster than public schools. Catholic schools now enroll 5,300,000 students-or 12% of all U.S. schoolchildren. Yet about 5,000,000 Catholic youngsters are still in public schools, including two-thirds of all those of high school age (the graduates of 10,287 Catholic grade schools are swamping 2,428 Catholic high schools...
...same goes for other big archdioceses, such as Chicago, where Msgr. William E. McManus sees "no need for federal aid to Chicago, public or parochial," though he adds that "if it comes, we ought to get the crumb." McManus' schools handle 34% of all Chicago schoolchildren, owe more than $40 million. They stay afloat by central-bank deals and an average annual tuition charge of $25 in grade schools and $225 in high schools. "Come hell or high water," says Msgr. McManus, "we're going to have 125 new classrooms next fall, no matter what they...
...Amendment ("Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof") to mean exclusion of direct aid to nonpublic schools. In the Everson case of 1947, the court upheld by 5 to 4 a New Jersey law authorizing free bus service for parochial schoolchildren. But this was interpreted as aid to children, not to schools...
...system, the Rand is equal to 10 shillings ($1.40), and can be divided into 100 cents. Already the government has spent $21 million converting old-type cash registers and accounting machines to the new decimal system. But the chief beneficiaries of the changeover are South Africa's schoolchildren. For 135 years. South African schoolboys, like their brothers in England and the empire, have had to learn mathematics twice-first in the manner of the civilized world, which counts on ten fingers and decimalizes accordingly, and then in the English manner, which counts laboriously...