Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ABCs of School Violence" [Jan. 23], the writer says: "American parents and educators have yet to figure out a way of making respect for authority and for others part of every student's education." Every teacher will scream at that statement...
...Chicago opening of a musical based on Working, Author Studs Terkel's 1974 bestseller. Directed by Composer Stephen Schwartz (Pippin, God spell), the play is a working man's Chorus Line telling, in separate episodes, the stories of such characters as a steelworker, a supermarket checker, a teacher, a switchboard operator and a parking-lot attendant. The cast exuberantly hauls around ladders, scaffolds and dollies to tunes written for the show by James Taylor and others. The message? Says Terkel, whose book was based on 135 taped interviews: "Working people are brighter than we think. Their jobs...
...Hauge's case, the assailant was expelled. Han's assailant was merely transferred to another school. A student in a Boston high school who attacked a teacher with a pair of scissors was subsequently released by the juvenile court and returned to the same school. The judge, it seems, felt that the boy had extenuating emotional problems stemming from a scar on his face. And in a cause celebre in Providence, a teacher attempting to restrain a sixth-grade student from punching and choking a classmate whacked the offender on the leg with a blackboard pointer. The school...
That kind of leniency may now be changing. The NIE study, among others, calls for firm discipline and leadership by school principals. New York City announced recently that from now on teacher-assault cases will be prosecuted by the city's legal department, rather than dealt with by education officials. The Massachusetts legislature has lately stiffened penalties for assaults on teachers. Los Angeles, meanwhile, is testing an inner-city pilot program known as the "Juvenile Justice Center," in which any offense committed by a neighborhood youth will be tried by one of the center's two judges...
Cheating was not restricted to public officials. Six local accountants taught the proprietors how to save taxes by hiding income. But the best teacher was a "Mr. Fixit" named Philip Barasch. Unaware of the investigators' true identity, Barasch, a big Chicago landlord and self-styled "business broker," guided them every step of the way, telling them the hour inspectors would show up and the exact amount to give them (with Barasch's business card enclosed). The only officials he did not advise bribing were police because, he said, "if you pay off a cop, they keep coming around...