Report Card

P: After a spot poll of teachers, the High School Teachers Association of New York City had some telling things to report about today's pupils. Of the 1,495 New York City high-school teachers replying, 706 ("the overwhelming preponderance") rated their students' reading ability as poor, 681 said that students have little "realization that rewards or advancement must be earned," and 680 said that students have little "feeling of responsibility." To the association, however, perhaps the most important question was: "Have you found it necessary to lower standards?" The answers: 110 "little," 178 "medium" and 653 "much."

P: The Atomic Energy Commission announced that beginning next September, 103 Negro children of the atomic city of Oak Ridge would attend junior and senior high schools along with 2,600 whites. Thus Oak Ridge will become the first town in all of Tennessee to find out what desegregated schools are.

P: In Mound Bayou, Miss., Negro Physician T. R. M. Howard announced a fund-raising campaign for a special purpose: to help out any Negro who suffers economic pressure at the hands of the segregationist white Citizens Councils.

P: The Tampa (Fla.) Tribune got indignant over the things some of the county's teachers are doing to make ends meet. For an extra $12 a day, two principals are working for the state as judge and chief inspector at the Tampa greyhound race track; another teacher gets $9 a day from the state at the track as assistant auditor. The track itself is employing five more principals and two more teachers for such jobs as bet-taker and gatekeeper. Thundered the indignant Tribune: "In their private lives, they [principals and teachers] must conduct themselves so as to set an example for youth. A race track is essentially a gambling place . . . Some tracks in the past have fallen under control of known racketeers and their associates." Retorted the Hillsborough County Classroom Teachers Association: "Because of the salary level of the teaching profession, it is necessary for many school employees to seek other lines of employment."

P: Bryant Bowles, head of the Negro-baiting National Association for the Advancement of White People, announced that he would settle down at the scene of his greatest triumph: Milford, Del. Thereupon, he 1) was accepted as a member in the local P.T.A., 2) rented the Milford American Legion hall for a public meeting, 3) launched a fund-raising drive for the N.A.A.W.P., and 4) began collecting signatures for a petition to oust three officials who have not been displaying the proper N.A.A.W.P. attitude: State Superintendent of Public Instruction George R. Miller Jr., Milford Superintendent Ramon C. Cobbs and M. A. Glasmire, principal of the Milford high school.

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