Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Louis, ten-year-olds suit up for karate class. "This will teach you inner discipline," says their teacher. "Gonna teach 'em not to rip me off," murmurs a disciple. "Like A Clockwork Orange...
...make it do or do without" philosophy that inspired some of the young in the '60s has not yet kept the kids from being voracious consumers. "Can't really remember what I want for Christmas. There are so many things," said a six-year-old. Remarked her teacher: "It's unbelievable how much they've already had. In their own way, they are looking for their next high...
...poverty": "Many ghetto schoolteachers will tell you, if you interview them directly, that they see little hope for their pupils. Why, then, make a herculean effort? These children will be leaving school anyway, with little future ahead of them. What a contrast to the warmth and hopefulness of the teacher in the middle-class suburb!" Most schools, says Ron Edmonds, director of Harvard's Center for Urban Studies, act on the theory that "incoming social class is the principal predictor of pupil performance. If the child does not learn, say the educators, then it is not the fault...
Once upon a time in Tennessee I had a high school Latin teacher: Miss Martha Shelton Davis. We used to be terribly clever and call her Mattie behind her back. Like the rest of my classmates, I hated her daily for four straight years...
...inevitable course of events. For one reason or another, they are all stuck at Madison. No reformist program--the human relations office that will soon be set up in the cafeteria, the assembly programs on Martin Luther King that will be performed in the auditorium, and the parent-teacher meetings that will be conducted--can stop the emerging sequence of events. There is nothing mystifying about why this certain pattern must set in. It is a result of everyone in James Madison responding in an immediately logical manner...