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...Dixon's handful of Protestants had never liked the idea of nuns teaching their children, they kept their peace so long as the church owned the building where classes were held. But two years ago, Dixon's 800 citizens raised $13,000 to build the community a grade school of its own. Protestant parents were dismayed to discover that the county school board had hired a nun as principal and four nuns as teachers. There were crucifixes on the wall, Catholic prayers before & after class. A delegation of Protestants complained to the state board of education...
Last week the Santa Fe board urged a compromise: since high-school classes are still being held in the church-owned building, let nuns continue teaching there, but hire new lay teachers for the grade school. The Catholic Archbishop of New Mexico, the Most Rev. Edwin V. Byrne, took a further conciliatory step. At the state school board's request, he instructed all 128 nuns teaching in public schools throughout New Mexico to cease religious instruction during school hours, and to take down crucifixes. But Dixon's Protestants said they would not be satisfied until there were...
...Francisco got its first Negro grade-school principal, in charge of a teaching staff and a student body of Negroes and whites...
...without being examined in the admission tests for in College Board examinations in some previous year): Chemistry, Physics, French, German, Latin or Spanish. These examinations should be taken, whether or not the student plans to take courses in these subjects in college. Any Freshman or Sophomore who received a grade of 594 in any of these foreign language placement tests or in any foreign language test given by the College Board after 1941 will be considered to have met the Language Requirements (see statement of Language Requirements in official pamphlets...
...Kindergarten and first-grade enrollments were bulging with the first war babies to reach school age. Babies who passed their infancy in these hectic times, warned an Ohio psychologist, are apt to be jittery about such a violent novelty as school. Dr. Clare W. Graves of Western Reserve University advised parents to watch for such signs of nervous tension as mouth-tugging and hair-pulling. After a couple of weeks in school, kindergartners are apt to go on talking jags; the only thing for parents to do then, said Dr. Graves, is to grit their teeth and listen sympathetically...