Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sixth-grade teacher at Simon Elementary School in Washington, D.C., was stabbed with a knife thrown by a twelve-year-old boy who had been spanked for attacking the teacher with a broken bottle...
...thing, it tends to bring the volatility of some ghetto students into the more decorous white community. To compound the difficulties, many school administrators underplay violence out of fear that it will reflect on their ability to maintain control. In Washington, D.C., for example, one elderly woman teacher was kicked in the shins so severely that several operations were required to remove blood clots in her legs. Yet instead of upholding her, the principal labeled her a "troublemaker." Students, realizing that punishment is unlikely, are soon out of control...
Since tuition alone cannot pay the bills at Sandy Run, the difference is being made up through contributions, solicitation by teachers and benefit parties-such as the "Harvest Carnival" recently staged by the Ladies Auxiliary, which netted the school $500. Sandy Run's eleven teachers are paid a maximum of $5,000 a year, compared with $7,300 in the public schools. All are college graduates, though several lack required credits for teaching in public schools. Headmaster William Jackson, 54, a retired public school teacher, insists that he and his staff are motivated by simple love of learning...
Between these "commercials," the kids follow the inhabitants of Sesame Street: Gordon and Susan, a black science teacher and his wife (Matt Robinson and Loretta Long); Mr. Hooper, owner of the neighborhood candy store (Will Lee); Bob (Bob McGrath), another teacher; and Buddy and Jim (Brandon Maggart and James Catusi), two bumblers who teach lessons in logic through their own laughable illogic...
...program, "Vietnam in Classroom," is intended to instruct secondary school teachers on how to lead classroom discussions on the war. Joan Goldsmith, a former teacher of South Boston High School, is featured, creating a "dilemma situation," in which a group of South High students respond personally to the problem of draft induction...