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...polished at Heidelberg after schooling in the U.S. and Canada, divides his time between the Cobalt United Church and the public school, where he teaches religion. When his seventh-grade pupils came to the seventh of the Ten Commandments this spring, Pastor Wipprecht wrote three questions on the blackboard, told the children to copy them and take them home to their parents. The questions: 1) How does a baby start growing? 2) What does the term sex relations mean? 3) How much should I know about the biological side...
...preteenager, the nameless boy-narrator of Stars is the butt of his Danish schoolmates' gibes. They shrill "Cross-eyes" when he squints. At recess time, they rip off his cap and toss it into the chestnut tree. When he cannot quite make out the math problems on the blackboard and whispers questioningly to a deskmate, the teacher canes him. The boy takes this ugly-duckling treatment philosophically. He believes that his ugly-duckling family, as well as his weak eyes, is to blame...
Symbols of Liberty. Imperceptibly, the glad grew smaller. On Greek Independence Day, Teacher Durrell found his blackboard shrouded in crape with the message: WE DEMAND OUR FREEDOM ! Among the first symbols of liberty in modern Cyprus were Coca-Cola bottles, with which Author Durrell one day saw his girls pelt the police. During this "operatic phase" of the disturbances, Durrell took the post of press adviser to the governor. He still hoped that neither British hotheads ("Squeeeze the Cyps") nor Cypriot hotheads ("The British must go") would prevail. In retrospect, he believes that had Britain granted the Cypriots the right...
Hounded by lurid headlines; the New York City public schools last month suspended some 900 classroom toughs after a series of blackboard-jungle incidents ranging from rowdyism to rape (TIME, Feb. 10, 17). But the suspensions only postponed the basic problem: Where can the tough kids go to school...
...geology classes," says another official of the Teachers' Federation, "we have 32 microscopes for 540 students. For about half the audience in our amphitheater there is standing room only. Students squat on window sills or crouch on the floor; half cannot see the blackboard...