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This is the way Albert Shanker used to teach: "If it takes four ounces of poison to kill a person, how many ounces would it take to kill your mother, your father, your sister and your brother...
...Adds Shanker, recalling his days as a junior high school math teacher: "It was the only way I could get them to learn. They loved...
Today, affection and poison still figure strongly in Shanker's life. One critic calls him an "evil genius," while his supporters want him to run for mayor. As he toured New York State last week, enthusiastically explaining the June merger that will create a statewide, 200,000-member teachers' union, it was clear that Shanker has become one of the most complicated, controversial and powerful men in education...
Twelve years ago, when Shanker's United Federation of Teachers emerged from a gaggle of 106 teacher groups in New York City, the mere idea of a teachers' union made school administrators squeak like chalk on blackboard. Many teachers themselves had doubts about belonging to such an organization. But the financial record of the UFT, which Shanker expanded from 2,400 to 90,000 members, has erased many of those doubts...
...Albert Shanker, president of New York's United Federation of Teachers, will speak on "The Public School Crisis" tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Lowell Lec. at a meeting sponsored by YPSL. Admission is free to YPSL members, $1 to others...