Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Striking against Whom? Regardless of their semantics, the actions of Buffalo's teachers spoke for them: like it or not, they were on strike against their own city government and ultimately against the state. Most of the nation's editorial writers, recalling Calvin Coolidge and the Boston police strike, held that the strikers were in the wrong, even while many writers sympathized with their grievances. (According to the Federation, the average Buffalo teacher was going into the hole every year, had to borrow, or take a part-time job to make ends meet...
Cops & Chaos. Scenes inside the schools were less orderly than they were outside; in some schools they looked like rehearsals for chaos. Bobby-soxers roamed from room to room, singing, cheering and shrieking. Some scrawled on blackboards: "Teacher is a scab." As soon as a harassed schoolmarm managed to herd one group of revelers into a classroom, another gang careened into the corridor. Policemen tried to talk the pupils into going home, but the kids were having too much fun in school...
...Republican legislature had already rushed through an emergency bill to pay New York State's 72,000 teachers a minimum salary of $2,000 a year (TIME, Jan. 20). For many an upstate rural teacher it was a sizable boost, but most city teachers were already making more...
...just as important to get good teaching for children in the grade schools as for children in the high schools." The new plan also struck at an evil that had corroded the New York City, Buffalo and Rochester school systems for years: it nearly doubled the pay of substitute teachers, thereby all but wiped out the sweatshop system of "permanent substitutes." (There are 5,500 New York State substitutes, some of whom have been teaching regularly for ten years.) And it attacked the seniority system (which is vociferously backed by teacher groups) by putting all promotions after six years...
...Norwalk, Conn., scene of the first of the recent U.S. teachers' strikes (TIME, Sept. 16), teachers got good news. A committee of three outside educators handed in a 33-page report recommending a drastically increased pay scale, beginning at $2,400. The "Norwalk Plan" also urged a new top classification of "artist" or master teacher. Pay for an artist teacher: $6,000 "and more...