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Science and Math Revisions
...Sciences and Mathematics programs have also undergone revisions, with a particularly strong emphasis on biology and natural history courses and a new advanced math courses giving a solid introduction to calculus. There has been a particularly large demand recently for the Physics and Chemistry courses which are electives in the upper two classes, and the teaching of these subjects is now being brought up to date with the assistance of an M.I.T. science teaching program. But this does not mean that the school feels an increased need to push all students ahead in the sciences. One math teacher observes that...
...Ergil had been my math teacher, I'd have eaten my homework just to provoke a wrestling match...
Untitled principal of the out-of-hours school is Mrs. Stephen J. Knerly, 33, onetime bright child in Cleveland elementary schools, where gifted students are fed large helpings of science, foreign languages and math in special classes. She did much of the early tilting with school officials, then, with a neighbor, organized the French course. For a fee of $5 an hour the school hired Louise Burke, a retired Cleveland French teacher. Miss Burke runs her classes without texts and entirely in French, fining youngsters a "sou" (actually 1?) when they lapse into English. Says Mrs. Knerly's daughter...
...France and picked up a vespa. Headed south, or something like south. Reached Switzerland before the bread ran out, and found a job in one of those international schools. A country club affair for various breeds of brats. The math teacher had the grippe and all I did was fake a college degree. It was a great job, all ski trips and German beer. Wrote the draft board I was getting educated and they lapped it up. 'Europe' has a ring of enchantment for the boys back home...