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Word: teacherless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1947-1947
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Some of the reasons: New York public schools are overcrowded (in one last fall, children had to squat on tin pails and fruit baskets for lack of chairs, and every day, because of the teacher shortage, hundreds of classes go "uncovered." i.e., teacherless). Many schools are shy of up-to-date textbooks. A $38,000,000 building program is still largely in the blueprint stage, and schoolhouses are dangerously decrepit (said Mayor William O'Dwyer: "Those old Civil War firetraps are ghastly"). Above all, parents don't want their boys & girls to pick up the "dese-&-dose" accent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Inside Man | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

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