Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this area. Even though the school board voted to let us continue through next year, there are still those who cry for blood. Things like cursing, bare feet in class and smoking are not, in my opinion, substantial reasons for shutting down a school that has eliminated the teacher-student barrier and has helped many of us find ourselves and learn to reach others. Alternative schools may still be experimental, but we deserve a trial before we are condemned...
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...international meeting consisted of a keynote speaker from South Africa (white male of course), and three respondents (white male) who admitted never having even been in the third world and knew nothing whatever on the subject. A young professor from a University in Toronto--where he was a guest teacher and returning to his native Kenya challenged this incredible situation...
...superintendent and the Yamacraw principal "realistic:" although what they counsel is the acquiescence of blacks before a racist society. Sarris was more concerned with savaging the do-gooder who confronts them. (I'd think even a New York conservative would find these sentiments uncomfortable.) Sarris's statement, "only the teacher has a private destiny, whereas the students are a clustered blob of oppressed humanity," betrays his critical carelessness. For Conrack is always exhorting his kids to learn, to achieve, "to be Caesar or nothing...
...professional kids (all from the Georgia coast) act up a storm. When Voight's Conroy introduces his class to Brahms and Beethoven, or, in an effort to blow the lard from their brains, punctuates his classroom questions with a bike horn, we are gratified not only by the teacher's love and cleverness, but by the responses of his kids--abashed, suspicious, delighted, and finally openhearted...