Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city still has what one teacher describes, in a reference to traditional ethnic regard for education as the door to upward mobility, as "enough of a foreign element to insist on good education." The school on the hill is the pride of the community...
...Teachers also blame the administration for not giving direction to the school and for lowering standards. "I used to be tough and demanding, but I was told to lay off," confides one teacher. If he fails more than 20% of his students, he says, he is "called on the carpet"?a plaint echoed by other teachers...
...there are those who think the teachers and the teachers' union account for a big chunk of Medford's problems. Faculty salaries, which comprise 88% of the $4.4 million annual budget, are good. Yet the militant Massachusettes Teachers Association staged a 15-month slowdown at Medford between September 1975 and November 1976. Teachers refused to work with students a minute past their scheduled 7:45 am. to 2:15 p.m. day as a protest against what they felt were low salaries, large class size and insufficient job security In the end, they won their salary demands. A tenured teacher with...
...sophomore honors English class and the movie projector begins to whir. Act III, Scene 1 of The Merchant of Venice. There is no discussion and only a few questions about the plot. The 18 students and their teacher all hunch silently in their seats. Down the hall, three more English classes, packed in a small theater, are also viewing films. Complains one teacher: "I really get caught up in my subject matter. But some teachers think that's weird. The attitude in the faculty lounge is, 'Does anyone have a film...
...another class, this one in U.S. history, the teacher keeps up a patter of jokes and badinage. A discussion of economic competition sends him off on constant tangents. "I've got to borrow some pens," he says, leaping up and racing around the circle of desks in the room. His point, although garbled, is that pen manufacturers must be careful not to overprice or their products won't sell. When a student volunteers that his Bic pen cost 39¢, it strikes the teacher as a revelation. "Really? Have they gone up that much?" The kids loll back, tittering. "Would...