Word: teach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teacher's Lesson. Strong man of the corporal's guard defending the subdivision was Homeowner Theodor Repsholdt, a high-school teacher. "I am a resident of Deerfield and teach your children American history," said he. "I'm a Lutheran and I'm in favor of an integrated community." Catcalls from the floor: "Resign! Fire him." Repsholdt squared his shoulders, continued: "One thing is fortunate. If there is any shortage more acute than the shortage in housing, it is the shortage of teachers. I'm not frightened about losing my job." Repsholdt got a big hand...
Worley blew his stack over an irritation familiar to many a classroom teacher -the seeming fondness of administrators for more and more paper work. Fox Lane teachers have always submitted outlines during the summer of what they plan to teach in the new year. Last year they also began filing achievement summaries at the end of each month, plus a plan for the next week. This year, when the teachers were ordered to tack on another week, Worley refused. His lessons, said he, were geared to the daily attitudes of his students. Submitting a detailed plan was "meaningless, a sham...
...dodgers among us," says Pamela Buckley, housewife. "We're here because we want to be here. We've just got to make good." Says delighted Educator Taylor: "It seems as if there are literally thousands of older people ready to jump at a chance to teach...
Died. John Randolph Neal, 83, who precipitated the Dayton, Tenn. "monkey trial" in 1925 by urging Teacher John Scopes to defy state law and teach Darwin's evolution, served as Scopes's chief counsel (though overshadowed by the showmanship of his famed colleague Clarence Darrow), lost the case (Scopes was fined $100) but won the war; in Rockwood, Tenn...
...against the responsibility of personal decisions. But "religion is not necessarily a good thing. It was not a good thing when the Hindu I read about this spring killed his son as a religious sacrifice. It is not a good thing that religious pressure has made it illegal to teach evolution in Tennessee, because it conflicts with fundamentalist beliefs...