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...if tions today, the personnel have become from both the "white liberal establish- they graduate on that same level, the new oppressors depriving students of ment," North and South, and those black the institution should have its fund- the skills they need to succeed in an incivil rights leaders who are eager to use ing cut off...

...creasingly competitive job market...

...the suburbs, or outlying areas of the city, must be integrated That, in fact, is precisely the opinion of many of the local into the largely black city schools-as distinguished from principals...

...and this tipping point varies from comJohn Nixon, Jr...

...But these reductions were less than the population re- proposes moving 114,000 children, both black and white, on duction (25 percent) in schools in outlying areas where there a pairing and clustering basis which divides Chicago into had been no such introduction of black children...

...This is not simply proposed in the name of drips into the pail as it dries...

...In too many black instituproblem with as little rhetoric as possible level, no harm has been done...

...tion of black children into an all-white community school achievement of black children: first, the general laggardness through busing causes uneasiness...

...There is a place (They fail the National Teacher Examifor a small boat with oars and sail...

...percentage to 15 or 20 percent black, there would be a place for 3-4000 more black students...

...their tirrie writing government proposals or seeking community funds that are used to pay their own salaries or fund new, Martin Galvin impressive-looking buildings and equipment...

...there was a long way to go...

...It is so dark out it seems the sky Second, with limited numbers of white children remaining has overflowed, washing away the stars...

...His neck is a white slake, the problem in all its aspects, social as fishing for the water's sake and his...

...We need to find out the extent of the deficiency, not just in terms of buildings and Daniel Burke, F.S.C...

...Undoubtedly this stability was partially due to urbaq areas...

...This would not,only help the 4000 children involved and lighten the burden on the still predomiRoy Scheele nantly black schools, but most importantly it would be a step toward showing the suburban neighbors that integration can be Up Early One October Morning accomplished, without adversely affecting behavior patterns or school scores...

...equipment, but in the level of achievement by students, teachers, and adminis- The Teacher to.Heloise (After WaddeU) trators alike...

...only 2800 black children were placed in white schools...

...There seems to be a "tipping point" of schools (as well as of housing) beyond which some people will start to move...

...this the difference My own experience (seven years at St...

...In honor of my mother's final summer, A bird, perhaps no larger than her hope was, WHAT FINALLY, does this study tell us...

...nately rural sections of the Carolinas and But beauty Virginia where the academic levels are is for the one or two: even lower than the state's average...

...In the short run, before He takes only his place which is as small further funds are spent to upgrade black institutions, the following ought to be as he needs...

...First that while the Built in this viney place outside her window Chicago schools, like many other schools, have made An undistinguished nest...

...past funds have been spent...

...ary to hire returning graduates...

...He knows that water yields, through long-range programs that tackle that fishes break...

...He leaves the rest to you and me, a small boat, winter and a pair required: 1) full financial accounting of how of old crabbers leaning in the wind, space for oceans to turn in, things that bend...

...between loveliness and beauty: Augustine's Episcopal College, Raleigh) the knowledge of what has passed, convinces me that unless significant the memory of the tree in Eden...

...second, the bullheadedness of federal officials in the schools' long records of good service...

...well as economic...

...trators who spend the greater share of Tragedy as great...

...One of the painful lessons blacks asinstitutions of higher learning becomes 3) disclosure of academic level of similated during the long years of disanathema...

...nation) or for entrance into the advanced There is a piece of water here stddies program in the state's university for a fish farmer and his old wife, system...

...2) thorough inspection of personnel, Commonweal: 534...

...Before 1977, when there were some I take my chances in the perilous weather, fifty schools in Chicago that had virtually no black children, Defy this feline town, this reptile season...

...This is surprisingly Mayor Byrne and the School Board are opposing not to say that if the proportion of black youngsters were the plan...

...If these schools were to increase their racial I read the little cobweb-covered message...

...the controversy for personal gain...

...Only in the last two years was any Open your window so that I may sing you large-scale attempt at integration made, and in these two years One brief intrepid aria...

...it is administered by poorly-paid teachers from the same deficient And happiness...

...political stability or other values, but so that integration itself will work...

...changes are made in black institutions, Loveliness is easy, pouring more money into them will serve an appletree in blossom, only to perpetuate the problem...

...there was no increase white would have 50 percent or less white youngsters...

...In fact, in Hyde pushing for an overall integration of schools at a higher ratio Park, Lincoln Park and several of the other areas with sizable of the population than can be achieved, or even threatened, proportions of black residents, as well as black students in the without causing mass exodus...

...needs...

...and, as a matter of practice, acceptance of black youngsters in white schools Gone is increasing daily...

...munity to community and from time to time...

...schools, property values have increased...

...Black colleges are the logical places to begin, for they train future I have sometimes thought black leadership...

...Aug's, it's custom- A dog asleep in the sun...

...As Persephone come back entering freshmen, the education they re- or Helen, ceive is not geared to their remedial fierce kingdoms in her face...

...in the city school population, integration must be done on a Hung by the handle, the Little Dipper limited basis...

...If a more massive attempt is made, resegregation Commonweal: 530 anyone who attempts to criticize black their competency and dedication...

...Each May another class Heron's Bay graduates with students unable to qualify There is a space for winter here for positions in the public school system to grow its ice...

...Desegregation of the state's university We say the night heron stands and waits system will be accomplished only for breaking water...

...busing black students to these areas-would cause an even There are two alternate obstacles to improved educational more rapid exodus...

...What must be recognized however is that out of 60,000 white chilNow lonely, dren in the primary schools only 46,000 are in predominantly With both my mother and the summer withered, white schools...

...Similarly, an order that children in white families in much over the 15-20 percent, there would not be white flight...

...Within the month, roughly such a placing children in private schools, or to the declining birth suggestion has indeed been made: an HEW feasibility study rate...

...background (At St...

...Students and for a shining while in youth come to these schools from predomi- woman has it...

...students accepted into the institu- crimination was the methods used by the What is needed is full exposure of the tion...

...If they enter on a fifth grade oppressors...

...Not as a result of busing black youngsters to these areas...

...Maybe the gesture progress in integration, HEW has not been altogether wrong in Translated to: Look, old one, how, though fragile, pressing them to do more...

...There percent black youngsters, such a suggestion, let alone its has been about a 20 percent reduction of population in these execution, can cause an immediate exodus of many of the schools over the years, owing to families leaving the area or remaining white families...

...personnel is top heavy with highly paid adminis- And after beauty and great love...

...turned by the wind into the wind...

...Moreover seven zones, done in such a way that while some all-black the 20 percent drop of student populations in the northwest schools would still exist, all schools now predominantly schools was a longtime phenomenon...

...Consequently, if a city like Chicago has an overall average According to most of the principals, schools in the north- of 45 percent black children in its schools, and only 30 perwest area of Chicago, Belmont-Cragin, Montclare, Dunning, cent white children, and the federal government mandates Portage Park and Irving Park, showed no evidence of white that each and every white school must take in, say, exactly 45 flight resulting from the introduction of black students...

...According to the princi- of many educational bureaucracies to accelerate desegregapals we interviewed, in few, if any, of the forty schools did tion, even when it is possible, out of fear of upsetting local this uneasiness cause rapid withdrawal from the schools or applecarts and accelerating white middle class flight from neighborhood...