POLICE CALLED IN
NEW YORK TEACHERS, TERRORISM IN SCHOOL ASSAULTS BY STUDENTS fE!y Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (9.3/) ai.nl!)’ NEW YORK, Gee. 11. Tile Teachers’ 'Guild, in an unprecedented'step," send a, I,eider, to the Commissioner of Police requesting the immediate help of thq police to check thq ! ’“waye of, thrrorjshi Til’ schools.” The New York Times points out That the teachers: ha.ve complained for 'several months of the breakdown in discipline and morale in Hie city’s vast school system. The letter explains tfiat concern arises from various incidents ranging from outright murder to. mere - threats.- Tfiq studgnts have.’thrown. ml;>wells,, af teachers. Many, teachers, hdve' befen beaten up. their eyeA blackened in other ways, making t&qchifig'in New York a “llazprdbus profesMon/' The superintendent; of the city, schools explained thp't the “war and the changed spirit of the times” was increasing youth delinquency. He hoped the appointment of additional teachers in 1943 will alleviate the conditions." " ’ :
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20966, 14 December 1942, Page 2
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