Word: teachers
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...fatally stabbed in the chest at John Adams High School, in the Queens section of New York City, while his screaming girlfriend watched helplessly. On Dec. 5, a Los Angeles high school gang stabbed one victim and beat a second with a heavy belt buckle. Attacks against teachers seem to be increasing faster than student v. student assaults. In one incident last November, a woman math teacher in a New Haven junior high accosted a 14-year-old girl in the cafeteria line after the student insulted a cafeteria worker. The girl wheeled round, flung her tray of hot soup...
Outright violence is paced by a spreading atmosphere of hostility and disrespect within the classroom. "It's the insults, the dirty words, the cold insolence of the students that really bother teachers," says Stanley Heller, president of the West Haven (Conn.) Federation of Teachers. The decay in decorum can be traced back to the mid-'60s, when the civil rights movement and Viet Nam protest sparked a general distrust of authority. "The unspoken sense of distance between teacher and student began to disappear, and students felt they had a license to behave any way they wanted," says Geraldine...
Joseph Grande, executive secretary of the Providence teachers' union. Teachers complain bitterly, too, that even if they do press charges, either school administrations do not support them or offenders get off with a reprimand in juvenile court. "These kids know that nothing is going to happen to them," says Paul Hauge, a teacher in Des Moines's Harding Junior High School who was slugged in the face earlier this year by a 200-lb. student. "They're juveniles. Suspension is merely a three-to ten-day vacation. Even if they're expelled, they're entitled...
...minds of the Long Island bird watchers. By mid-morning the group had spotted 36 different species, slightly shy of the figure at that hour during the previous year's count. "Not really too good," shrugged Leader Paul Stoutenburgh, 50, a tall, lean, high school teacher and part-time naturalist. "Perhaps we're just not as sharp-eyed as we should be today...
...master was born 46 years ago as Rajneesh Chandra Mohan in a small village in Madhya Pradesh province. Raised in the Jain religion, he worked as a journalist, photographer, and teacher of philosophy at Madhya State University before becoming a spiritual master in 1966. Today the Poona center is growing so swiftly that he is looking for roomier quarters. Rajneesh's lectures are taped and turned into a steady stream of books. One title: Above All, Don't Wobble. Rajneesh centers now operate in 22 nations...