Word: winegar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does the nation appear to lack leadership in its schools. When Jerome Winegar took over South Boston High School in 1976, 90 armed troopers were necessary to oversee a court-ordered busing program. Winegar began a program that isolated disruptive students in special classes instead of sending them home. Students in the special classes dropped to fewer than 100 last year from...
...torn school systems. An apt symbol is South Boston High School, where whites clashed with blacks in the mid-'70s. Today Southie is a well-balanced school with a population of 856 students that is 43% black, 34% white, 11% Asian and 12% Hispanic. In 1976 Headmaster Jerome Winegar began an in-school suspension program: students who get into trouble are assigned special help under a supervising teacher instead of being
...study a foreign language. In addition to a mandatory English course, ninth-and tenth-graders must take a reading and writing workshop that continues hi the eleventh and twelfth grades if the student does not do well. Daily attendance rates have risen 14% in the past year. Says Winegar: "You don't change a school with programs. You change a school with philosophy. We want to help young people battle their way into the mainstream...
...press conference yesterday, Paul Kennedy, the acting school superintendent, reaffirmed his commitment to integration and his support for Winegar...
...Winegar said yesterday reinstalling the metal detectors would be regressive. "We don't want a concentration-camp atmosphere here," he said. "We have trained people who can spot potential trouble. And if a student refuses to be searched, then that student is sent home," he added...