Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traditional arm twisting: dangling teacher salary increases, calling in campaign debts. Eventually he brought it off with remarkable success both for himself and his high school seniors...
Gary's mathematics teacher in the ninth grade, Bobby Crihfield, recalls that Gary was "very quiet, a typical poor student who is passed along from grade to grade." Unaware of Gary's musical ability or his skill in carpentry and woodcarving, Crihfield says he has seen many such students who "reach a plateau once they get to the seventh grade, and they just can't learn any more. I think it's just unfair to try to make them graduate from high school...
...Gary's parents, who say they never received a call or letter about his schoolwork from any of Gary's teachers, see things differently. Says his father: "If he's slow in learning, then I think you should hold him back. Even my little ones-if I don't discipline them early, then I'm going to have problems later. Have they ever asked themselves how a teacher could give a student a passing grade for each of the years he went to school, and then he gets to the eleventh grade and they tell...
...jazz tap went out with the death of 'Bojangles' Robinson and was replaced with rock-n-roll," Collins, a teacher at the Harvard Dance Center, says...
...trustees are Jane Carpenter Bradley '49, a director of Fiduciary Trust Company in Boston; Elizabeth R. Heffernan '75, a student at Georgetown University Law Center; Ruth B. Helman '43, a former president of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association; Ellen LaFollette '54, an editor and teacher of American Literature; Mary Anne Schwalbe '55, associate dean of admissions and financial aid; and Alfred R. Stern, a consultant to Warner Communications...