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...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
...press conference yesterday, Paul Kennedy, the acting school superintendent, reaffirmed his commitment to integration and his support for Winegar...
Headmaster Jerome Winegar said yesterday 81 of 240 ninth graders returned to classes--41 Blacks, 24 whites, and 16 Hispanics and American Indians...
...There is some evidence of a group interested in keeping kids out of South Boston High," Winegar said yesterday. He would not say if whites were conducting an organized boycott. "That is a matter between myself and the police at the moment," he added...
...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...