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...Communist daily Freies Volk got a geography lesson. Under the headline PISTOLS AND BRASS KNUCKLES IN CLASSROOM, WEST BERLIN SCHOOLS ARE GANGSTER STUDIOS, Treiber had pointed to the school in the Pankow area of Berlin as a horrible example of just how the West brings up and trains its schoolchildren. In the Pankow school, he wrote, children have been found armed with brass knuckles and guns, while others write lewd poems which they circulate through an organization they call the "Bureau of Love...
...movement got started almost four years ago when the P.T.A. took notice of the condition of Seattle schoolchildren's teeth. They seemed appallingly bad-no doubt because of the lack of natural fluorine in the city's water. Why not put chemical fluorides in the water supply? The P.T.A. quoted statistics from other towns that had tried the experiment, pointing out the resulting drop in tooth decay among children. Impressed, Seattle's city council held a public meeting to discuss fluoridation, scheduled a referendum for this year's March 11 municipal elections...
...After questioning 998 Cincinnati schoolchildren on their TV-watching habits, Professor Walter Clarke of Xavier University had some disquieting news to report. The average 12-and 13-year-old, he found, spends 3.7 hours every schoolday before the screen. Over a week, he is apt to consume as much as 30 hours-five more than he spends in school...
...museum on a bed of naphthalene crystals in a cheap, brown-stained wooden box. Its rusted cloth wrappings were worm-eaten and frayed with age. The exposed face and head were blackened by the embalming process. Because the name was translated as Diana, Vancouver's schoolchildren were led to believe that their favorite exhibition was once a young girl...
Such simple questions, and 657 more just like them, were put last spring to 30,000 Los Angeles schoolchildren by Associate Superintendent Maurice G. Blair. Last week parents and teachers got a look at the results and yelped with pained surprise...