Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people are overjoyed to have them, whatever their reasons for coming. "It has to work," says Mrs. Lolita Chandler, veteran teacher of P.S. 178. "It will work. In spite of everything that people are doing to crush this beautiful thing. We have been floating around in this sea of negativism for too long. People don't have the courage to face the fact that the status quo just hasn't worked. Instead, they get themselves frightened by such ideas as Black Power and militancy. It's not that at all. It is just a simple matter...
...district's mistrust of many veteran teachers is often unfair, if understandable. The menacing atmosphere of most slum schools is enough to cow even the most devoted teacher, who in any case is seldom equipped professionally to deal with the specialized problems of the deprived child-let alone the disturbed or disruptive student who is too often rejected as "uneducable...
...Humiliations. As a substitute teacher in ghetto schools, Shanker was earning only $41 a week as late as 1952. Teachers, he claims, were too terrified of their autocratic supervisors to complain about poor pay and ill-treatment; to help them, he became a full-time U.F.T. organizer. "Part of the early motivation of the U.F.T.," he says, "was to punch the administrators in the nose for all the humiliations teachers had suffered...
...Crest toothpaste commercial shows a pert black housewife bidding on antiques at an auction that is in a presumably wealthy white neighborhood; in another, a black science teacher lectures white parents on what to do to keep Junior's teeth bright. In toy commercials, white, Negro and Oriental children frolic together in an idyllic suburban setting that exists only in some copywriter's imagination. In Ad-Land, there is no discrimination between whites and nonwhites, at least in one sense: both are treated unrealistically...
...fond if not indulgent critic, though, Hofstadter praises the vitality of his progressives and probes their private lives and times. In surprisingly effective thumbnail sketches, Turner appears as a generous teacher and enthusiast who would never have survived in the publish-or-perish world of today's scholar. During his lifetime he signed contracts to write at least nine books which he never finished, though he left 34 file cases of notes...