Word: worley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...position because he took matters into his own hands (I belted a couple of students who didn't know the difference between teacher and student because the almighty administration didn't trouble to orient them on this nice point), I shout hurrah! hurrah! migawd, hurrah! for James Worley [Dec. 7]. Probably Worley would disagree with me on the subject of physical restraint in the schools, but I want him to know that I agree with him 100% on the subject of teachers' paper work, especially in the euphemistically entitled lesson plans. HAROLD A. DE PUY ex-Pearl...
...Worley blew his stack over an irritation familiar to many a classroom teacher -the seeming fondness of administrators for more and more paper work. Fox Lane teachers have always submitted outlines during the summer of what they plan to teach in the new year. Last year they also began filing achievement summaries at the end of each month, plus a plan for the next week. This year, when the teachers were ordered to tack on another week, Worley refused. His lessons, said he, were geared to the daily attitudes of his students. Submitting a detailed plan was "meaningless, a sham...
...night hearing in the school auditorium, Worley forcefully stated his case before 700 spectators. Principal Arthur B. Shedd argued that lesson plans were not inflexible, just a guide for substitute teachers. Worley saw it differently: "I concede the right of administrators to compel me to guard the footbridge on the day of football games, to patrol the boys' washrooms, and to supervise night basketball games. However irksome I might consider those demands, they do not trespass on the one area of education that is mine alone-the classroom. As long as my competency is accepted, I am the expert...
Last week the school board ruled that Teacher Worley, however competent, "took this matter into his own hands . . . in our opinion, professional competence cannot be adduced as a rationalization for insubordinate behavior...
...week's end (he is appealing to the State Tenure Commission), Worley was not sorry for his stand. "Controls by administrators," said he, "are a scab on a festering sore that hinders imaginative teaching." Twelve parents promptly hired him to tutor their children. Scholar Jacques Barzun, provost of Columbia University, wrote a warm personal note: "In a period when the rarity of good teaching is notorious and likely to increase, it is a rash administrator who would dismiss a competent and reliable teacher solely on the ground of not following to the letter a secondary obligation in the form...