Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mass resignation was just the latest painful symptom of the sickness that prevails in the nation's largest and least efficient public-school system. To service a student population of more than 1,000,000, and pay a teacher staff of 54,600, New York next year proposes to spend $1.1 billion-more than is spent by 26 states to operate their entire governments. The budget breaks down to an expenditure of about $1,000 a year per student, roughly $400 above the national average; teacher salaries are among the highest of large U.S. cities. Yet the results...
Even when aging structures are replaced by ultramodern schools, minority groups continue to complain. Last fall, the school board formally opened the all-new, air-conditioned Intermediate School 201 in East Harlem, which featured a low teacher-student ratio and special tutorial help. Outraged that it was not fully integrated, Negro neighborhood leaders ordered a boycott, kept it closed for five days, demanded that the board provide an all-Negro teaching staff. Since then, unruly students have reflected their parents' pique by disrupting classes, committing wanton acts of vandalism. This month, the embattled white principal, Stanley R. Lisser, quit...
...Teacher Turnover. The fact is that no one has any solution to the problems of New York City's schools. "I think we've done as well as most cities, and God knows we've tried hard-but we just haven't done it," concedes Superintendent Bernard E. Donovan. In trying to prevent de facto segregation, for example, the school board in 1959 adopted an "open enrollment" plan, providing free buses for Negroes to attend white schools; too few cared to make the trip. It also tried the "Princeton Plan" of pairing white and Negro schools...
...city's United Federation of Teachers, which is the nation's strongest local teachers' organization, seems to have no answer either. It refuses to permit school administrators to shift veteran teachers into slum schools against their will. Beginners are thus thrown into some of the toughest teaching tasks in the nation-and are shaken by the experience. "I'll never forget when I was sent into that class, I had to show those children not how to read but how to open a book," says one recent Vassar graduate. Recalling his first day in a slum...
...unbearable, she loses herself during a stalk and pretends that she is accompanied by a friendly unicorn, the traditional symbol of virginity. By the end of camp, she has found and kept a friend, but she still has need of her imaginary pal. "Just remember," she says to a teacher who intrudes on her illusions, "I am a virgin, the right kind of virgin, and in the right ways. There aren't so many like me nowadays...