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...Development Council, bought radio time to air their opposition. "There is far too much paint-daubing," cried the Pasadena Independent, "[and] far too little discipline." Many a Pasadena parent agreed: some were sincerely worried about the elimination of report cards in the lower grades (though that was a pre-Goslin innovation) and what seemed a lack of emphasis on the three...
...fortnight ago Pasadena's board of education decided that the controversy had gone far enough. It sent a telegram to Goslin, attending a conference in Manhattan, asking for his resignation...
Riddled? Back in Pasadena to discuss the telegram with his school board last week, Superintendent Goslin was in a philosophic mood: "Whenever the properly elected representatives of the community demand my resignation," he said, "I regard it as mandatory to resign." His attitude suggested that as soon as he had reached a salary settlement with the board, he would resign as requested. But Pasadena was in for a surprise. For the first time, hundreds of citizens who had remained silent began writing and phoning their protests to the board. A group of businessmen and churchmen, led by wealthy Industrialist Philip...
Meanwhile, anti-Goslinites were flocking to the hearings of the California State Senate Education Committee, which happened to be in town on a statewide investigation of Communism in the schools. Charged Pasadena Osteopath W. Ernest Brower, president of the anti-Goslin School Development Council: Pasadena's schools are riddled with Communism. Brower pointed to the soft-pedaling of classroom competition among students and to the inclusion of sex education in biology and hygiene courses...
Superintendent Goslin also had a chance to address the committee. Said he: "I have never seen a community in America where the school system was better than its people wanted it to be. What the people want not only should govern, it does in fact govern . . . Here in Pasadena we are going through one of those typically American procedures to find out what we believe in and what we want...