Word: thomson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...James C. Thomson, curator of the Nieman Foundations for Journalism, was not mincing words. "With this nationwide, brutal suppression of dissent," he said Wednesday, "the illegitimate Pretoria regime moves far toward terminating its last cosmetic pretence to democracy--namely, a free press...
...Thomson's Island does seem to teach the skeptics a good deal about human nature and about what kids accustomed to a highly polarized setting beset by racial strife can accomplish, in a better environment. But for all the votes of approval from students, it is easy to forget that the program is a short-lived one. After seven weeks on the island many students begin to ask questions, to take academics more seriously, to think more carefully about their futures. But then each group returns to Southie High, back to the troopers and the fights. Most of these...
...here on Thomson's Island, everybody can work together. You don't have to worry about getting into fights, or what somebody else called you. You can't avoid trouble at Southie," Jeffrey Hardy, a ninth-grader who has only spent four weeks in South Boston High, adds...
...become resigned to the fact that the program is a one-shot deal for many of these kids," November says. Without the financial resources to maintain a formal follow-up program, the Thomson staff members must rely on casual contact with their former students. The chances are limited to the times when teachers come into South Boston High to recruit students for a new program, or when a student calls an old Thomson instructor for advice...
...fact, bright options are open to some of the Thomson Islanders who do not look forward to returning to the mainstream of Southie High. During the spring of 1975, a group of South Boston High School teachers visited Thomson's Island and, apparently inspired by what they saw, returned to Southie to form an alternative "school-within-a-school" for select students. In the two years since, several other spin-off alternative programs have begun at Southie High. November says about half the Thomson Islanders apply for an alternative program when they leave the island, of that number, about...