Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make known currently its own activities in important preliminary stages before those activities have reached the stage for more general publication in books or the public press. In fact, I have reason to believe that Faculty members, like many others in this complex society, are sometimes almost completely dependent upon the CRIMSON for their knowledge of what their more remote colleagues are doing. Delmar Leighton
...Virgina, parents have set out to improve the school systems, on the verge of adulteration by the Supreme Court, by urging upon the state legislatures bills abolishing integrated public schools. This fall, these parents will sit placidly by while all the public schools in the state become private and, until some sort of reverse legislation takes place, their children will remain at home, unschooled...
...meetings, and encourages parents to talk with teachers, principals, board members, and the Superintendent. "Anybody in this city can walk in the door and speak his peace," Harold Gores, Newton Superintendent of Schools, maintains. This encouraging of intimate, individual parent-school contact prevents a community from looking upon the school committee as a power structure that must be beaten down in order to have one's say. In Cambridge, where so much of the recent appointments scandal was carried on in "executive session," from which visitors were barred, such a structure has been built up, at least in the minds...
...must compromise, and frequently the wrong things are compromised. Most high school newspaper editors, for example, have known the frustration of desiring to print a piece of perfectly legitimate news which the faculty adviser bans on the grounds that it will "make the school look bad." Frequently, principals insist upon reading copy for the paper after the adviser has done so, making sure that it contains nothing that could be possibly be construed as offensive to anyone...
...Parent-Teacher Associations associated with the school system. Principals have been known to cower in fear of the ladies who exert influence through cake sales and bridge parties, and in schools with wealthy PTA's, a great many school functions, frequently including academic ones, become complacently dependent upon these women...