September 19, 1984
Unforgivable Events
I commend David Hill on his generally well-written and accurate article, “The Writing On The Wall” [October], about San Marino (Calif.) Unified School District teacher Georgia Gabor's fight against anti-Semitism.
The commission's work is centering on two "schools of the future" proposals that are expected to be finished by year's end for introduction in the upcoming Congressional session.
The prohibition against the teaching of that doctrine--which is said to advocate the well-being of mankind over religious considerations in civil affairs and is anathema to a number of conservative groups--was included in the section of the measure that provides $75 million for magnet schools.
The grant from the science foundation is contingent on Congressional appropriations.
Ms. Sommers, an assistant professor of philosophy at Clark University, argues that a growing aversion among educators to teaching traditional morality is undermining the moral development of many students.
Last April, two students reported to their teacher that a knife had fallen out of the pocket of Burleigh Odum, now 14, a student at Gwynn Park Middle School in Brandywine, Md.
The program honors outstanding elementary- and middle-school principals from 45 states and the District of Columbia, four private schools, and four overseas schools affiliated with the U.S. Defense Department or the U.S. State Department.
The staff members said that a number of House Democrats raised last-minute concerns over voting for the high-cost bill, which has been attacked by the Reagan Administration as a "budget buster."
The plan would allow noncertified individuals to work as "supervised interns" for three years while completing the education courses necessary for certification, the deans said in a proposal sent to the Arkansas Education, Certification, and Evaluation Committee last month.
Health and education officials think the rare immunity problem could endanger the health of the triplets as well as that of other schoolchildren in the district.
Mr. Reynolds reiterated the U.S. Justice Department's position that the government is not bound by the vague language of the consent decree to a broad funding plan for Chicago and that U.S. District Judge Milton I. Shadur's Aug. 13 order to that effect violated the constitutional separation of powers.
In Michigan, strikes in Grand Rapids and Anchor Bay were settled last week. Teachers also are back at work in Cassopolis and Escanaba, and a spokesman for the National Education Association said last week that settlements were "near" in East China and River Rouge.
No money was actually printed in the school's print shop, but to the Secret Service, which learned of the situation through a tipster, making the plates was just as objectionable as forging the cash, Mr. Daenzer said.