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...were just too rough. Larosa's students broke into fistfights almost daily, hurled paper clips, and hit him on the head with chalk and textbooks. Soon he had a bleeding ulcer and, on his doctor's advice, quit teaching. Last month, in a landmark ruling affecting a teacher, a California Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board decided that Larosa had "sustained injury arising out of his employment." His award: medical costs and $70 a week...
Subtle Materials. Vuillard was the greater artist, but it was his schoolboy friendship with Roussel that steered him to painting. When Roussel enrolled with an art teacher, Vuillard decided that he also wanted to be a painter, and succeeded in enrolling at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Unhappy with its rigid academicism, he transferred to the somewhat freer atmosphere of the Academic Julian, where he met Bonnard, Maurice Denis and Vallotton. Calling themselves the Nabis (Hebrew for prophets), they formed a group to perpetuate Gauguin's theories on painting, Mallarme's on poetry. "To name an object...
Under fire from the community, Franconia's once sympathetic board of trustees demanded the resignation of President Ruopp, an Oxford-educated Methodist minister and philosophy teacher who came to the college in 1963. Explains Board Member Philip Robertson: "It was an experiment that had run away with itself. A man would come up to me on the street and say, 'I hear you're running a whorehouse up there...
...Spare the rod and spoil the child" may seem like a quaintly old-fashioned philosophy, but plenty of U.S. teachers still live by it. In a nationwide sampling of grade-school teachers by Grade Teacher magazine, nearly half of the 600 respondents said that they had hit at least one child during the last school year; 10% admitted, anonymously, that they had struck children more than five times. In addition, 70% reported that other teachers in their school had used physical punishment...
...reported cases of pupils being struck occurred despite regulations prohibiting physical punishment. Striking was most common in the public schools, the early primary grades and in the Southern states, and was least frequent in suburban schools. A child is four times more likely to be hit by a male teacher than by a woman. Defending their heavy-handed discipline, 63% of the teachers said that they favored school-board policies permitting them to strike youngsters anywhere except on the head. "Physical punishment," said one teacher from a California ghetto school, "is what these children understand best...