Word: truants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...system employs 51,201 people-among them, 37.609) teachers, 772 custodians. 402 truant officers and hundreds of clerks, mechanics, architects, engineers and elevator operators. Many of its subsidiary works, such as legal condemnation of land for new schools and the purchase of supplies (411,500 rolls of toilet paper, $18,965 wet mops. $6,900,000 worth of books and school equipment every year) are big businesses in themselves...
...child to that dump." Myers and his wife, who holds a New York state teacher's certificate, began tutoring Shelley at home in her prescribed subjects. Shelley's five hours of "classes" are held on every day that P.S. 19 is in session. Mrs. Myers claims her truant daughter is now "far ahead" of most fourth-graders...
...danger of hooky all but evaporates too, since a truant officer sees to it that students either stay at school or attend sacred studies. A truant officer's badge is more effective than a parental pronunciamento any day. Released time is thus a great aid to a church group in getting future parishioners to attend classes that they otherwise would have ignored. If not, why would America's churches fight so stubbornly for released time programs...
Though he is a teacher at heart, Don Herbert hates the dry stuffiness of a classroom as much as any truant schoolboy. On Mr. Wizard, his popular science show for kids (Sat. 5 p.m., NBC-TV), he uses brief, ad lib comment instead of hectoring lectures, everyday objects like balloons and tumblers instead of beakers and fractionating columns, and he would rather conduct his experiments with a potato or a spinning top than with test tubes and Bunsen burners...
There is perhaps no comic strip that has so rapidly won its way into the hearts of the American people and into the pages of their newspapers as Pogo. The puny possum and his partner sin mirth poke fun at every subject from atom bombs to truant officers with corn and candor...