WALK-OUT OVER UNRULY PUPILS
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright ) NEW YORK, March 16. A teachers’ protest against young hoodlums in a New York slum neighbourhood school threatened to spread today unless the education authorities take measures to stop assaults on teachers.
Seventy-nine of a staff of 126 teachers at the junior high school resigned on Tuesday, complaining that they were constantly subjected to physical and verbal abuse from unruly pupils.
Most of the 2000 pupils are Negro and Puerto Rican, aged 12 to 15. The teachers who resigned said yesterday that they would not return until there was “a better atmosphere in which to teach the children.” A union representing the teachers said it would stage sympathy strikes tomorrow in
A Board of Education official said that if the teachers* resignations were accepted “we will have to beat the bushes for teachers to fill the gap.”
some other schools if safety measures were not arranged by the Board of Education. The protesting teachers contend that the school lacks policy and staff to deal with disruptive pupils. Thirteen pupils have been suspended this school year for assaulting teachers. None of the incidents was said to be serious.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31321, 17 March 1967, Page 11
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