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Freeway Madness

by Russell Kirk

Freeway Madness From the Academy

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Approximately a thousand teachers in this country’s biggest school district are hopping mad. These are the Los Angeles teachers who have been, or are being, ordered to serve the cause of “racial integration” by teaching at schools many miles from their place of residence—and this in an area known for its lack of public transportation.

One such teacher—let us call him Mr. Diogenes—has given me the details of his predicament. He thinks of quitting the L.A. public-school system altogether, though he has spent his whole adult life in it. He has been reassigned —living at one end of the District, he has been ordered to teach at the other end.

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