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...third time since the start of the school year on Sept. 9, most of New York City's public schools were shut down-in large measure owing to the actions of one man. At the urging of its belligerent president, Albert Shanker, the United Federation of Teachers again walked out on strike; more than 50,000 teachers abruptly abandoned their classrooms in the latest battle over the city's ill-planned efforts at school decentralization...
...highly confused strikers, many of them veterans of years of tortured teaching in the city's ghetto schools. Mayor John Lindsay, wearing a yarmulke, was jeered and insulted in a Brooklyn synagogue by a teacher-dominated audience as he tried to explain his stand on the strike. Shanker himself was shouted off the stage at a Manhattan meeting by a highly vocal crowd of black parents, who called him a white racist...
...effort to cool tempers, School Superintendent Bernard Donovan ordered J.H.S. 271 closed for two days, while he held meetings with the school's faction-torn faculty. Then Shanker shattered Donovan's efforts by barging into one of the meetings, and demanding that the union should be represented. Donovan gave up, ordered the school reopened and gave its principal the right to assign the challenged teachers to non-classroom chores. With that, Shanker called for a strike. Only 8,000 of the U.F.T.'s 55,000 members bothered to vote to approve a walkout, but most of them...
...extremists in Ocean Hill had recklessly and needlessly inflamed the situation. No doubt the union had a point when it argued that its members stood to lose painfully gained job security if local committees were totally free to hire and fire teachers. Yet many New Yorkers were outraged by Shanker's own extremist rhetoric and by his arrogance in tying up the entire 1,100,000-pupil system over a dispute at one school...
Unimpressed by the growing opposition to his strike, Shanker stepped up his demands; for the first time he insisted that the whole Ocean Hill-Brownsville experiment in community control be considered a failure and dissolved. He was also angered at Lindsay for appointing outspoken advocates of decentralization to the school board. Two of them, John Doar, former federal civil rights prosecutor, and the Rev Milton A. Galamison, a Negro who has led school boycotts, were elected president and vice president of the board...