Word: schooling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Meanwhile, other anti-Goslinites had been denouncing his reformed curriculum as too progressive. They organized a School 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...
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...
Died. Louis Stix Weiss, 56, top lawyer for Chicago's Millionaire Marshall Field III, since 1942 chairman of the board of the New School for Social Research; of a coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan...