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...YORK CITY. At P.S. 93, a youngster tells teacher Donald Miller, "Melvin has a toy." Since toys are not allowed in the lunchroom, the teacher confronts five-year-old Melvin and demands that he hand it over. Miller suddenly faces not a toy but a "Saturday-night special" pointed at his chest. The gun turns out to be loaded, cocked and ready for action...
Leaving the lunchroom, I understood that the management at the Michurinsk factory could no longer afford to live differently from everyone else. And I understood why: they were leasing the factory. They now had to account for every kopeck...
...panoply of horrors for teachers and administrators. Odette Dunn Harris, principal of William Penn High School in Philadelphia, talks of confiscating crack bags from student pushers in a neighborhood torn by gang wars and racial strife. When she first arrived at the school, "they had riots in the lunchroom. The fire gong used to go off every five minutes, and that was the cue for the kids to break out." Some youngsters still carry knives and guns as casually as pocket combs. One parent assaulted her, and she notes, "I've had kids say to me, 'I'm going...
...only government outpost in town, which is one reason it has become the rallying point for antidump % activity. Another reason is Kenneth McCalip, the school's principal, who has become the town's toxic-waste spokesman and organizer. Last fall, says McCalip, "it would get really yucky in the lunchroom." Nauseated children were being sent home early. One day in November he evacuated the whole school, all 21 students. "The wind died down, and the odors got so darn bad. The fumes started rolling into our classrooms, more than we'd ever experienced before. Mrs. Wickham, the other teacher here...
...will be required to pass the teacher-certification test. The Germans will pay their own way to the U.S., although local districts will help them find housing. Some Georgia educators worry about culture shock, since German teachers could be disconcerted by disorderly American students and by nonacademic duties like lunchroom monitoring. Says Bob Adams, personnel specialist for Atlanta schools, who has hired foreign-born teachers in the past: "They find it very frustrating in terms of discipline, the American attitude toward education, and the role of teacher vs. students...