Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seventh-Grade Teacher...
...echoes of the primitive naturalism of Germany in the thirties. They got a further reminder in Secretary Ivanissevich's announcement of a new section of his Secretariat, which was obviously designed to emphasize the supremacy of the Peronista state over private lives. The new section is named "The Teacher is a Friend." To it, students are urgently invited to bring all personal problems which they feel they cannot discuss with parents, brothers, guardians, or friends...
Torch of Learning. In Matthews, Ind., High-School Teacher Hobart Black was fired for waking up somnolent students by giving them the hotfoot...
...nice," said one boy of a teacher...
...Many teachers resented appointment to Harlem, hated their Negro, Spanish, and Italian pupils ("All the boys are interested in," said one, "is women and shirking work"). The teachers rapped knuckles, shouted and yelled. One teacher ripped up pupils' notebooks whenever they were not perfectly neat. Another punished a child by having the whole class line up to smack him. In P.S. 10 ("A prison," said the school's principal), some kids were kept away from class for as long as a month, seated in an anteroom where teacher-clerks, to discipline them, kept them idle and quiet...