Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seaside houses and forced thousands to flee inland. In Revere, Mass., some people clung to the rooftops of their houses. "Twice each day, when the tide came in, I thought I was going to die," said Anthony Chiarella, who retreated to his attic with his dog Sergeant. In Hull, Teacher Martha Fingers and her family rested in shifts so that they would not be caught unaware if the house was about to be swept away. "We didn't really sleep," she told rescuers. "The waves kept rocking the house." The sidewheeler Peter Stuyvesant, which formed part of Anthony...
...junior high school teacher in the Philadelphia school system for the past three years, I have been assaulted four times-three times by parents or older siblings. I have suffered bruised ribs, fingernail lacerations and a mild concussion...
...ages, sizes and lung capacities have huffed away their Sunday mornings together along the streets of Los Altos Hills, Calif. The bucolic town, 40 miles southeast of San Francisco, offered a peaceful setting for the so-called fun runs-until David Proft, a town councilman and high school teacher, got irritated by the hordes that streamed past his home on narrow Moody Road. Charging that group jogging constituted a public danger to motorists and to the runners themselves, he persuaded the town council to draw up an ordinance that would force two or more joggers running together to obtain...
Imagine a school with 2,617 students culled from 57 different countries and cultures. In one classroom, the teacher copies the word farming on a blackboard ?first in English, from left to right, and then in Assyrian, from right to left. A susurrus of Chinese rises from a history class. Soft Spanish vowels punctuate a science lesson. A model international academy? Hardly. It is Chicago's Nicholas Senn High School on the city's ethnically mixed North Side, where foreign-born students enroll in special bilingual programs that allow them to study a regular curriculum in their native languages...
Bilingual programs, still experimental, are plagued by problems. There is an acute shortage of qualified teachers. Textbooks are scarce. One Arabic teacher in Chicago finally telephoned Jordan's King Hussein personally for help; Hussein donated a planeload of textbooks. In an age of tight school budgets, bilingual programs tend to cost about twice as much as regular classes because of special teachers and materials...