| Show I School Crisis i Whatever approach one favors faVOl'S favors fa fa- vors VOlS to the current school integration crisis it is generally generally generally gen gen- agreed by most serious students of the problem that the nation especially the Deep South faces a crisis in the field of public education THE VAST majority of school officials trustees and l. teachers in all sections agree that integration is a foregone conclusion that delaying tactics tactics tac tac- tics with the aim of avoiding integration are doomed There is a difference on the question of the speed with which complete integration can be achieved in areas where the problem is a acute ute Nevertheless Nevertheless Nevertheless Never Never- the Nixon Administration tion with no thanks from the liberals and most black organizational organizational organizational leaders has accomplished accomplished accomplished more to integrate more schools than any previous ady ad ad- y ministration RECENTLY however the President appointed a cabinet- cabinet level group headed by Vice President Spiro Agnew to look into the school integration problem and advise on the best methods of achieving re re- suIts One reason for this was that events in some st states tes h showed that instant total integration integration integration inte inte- gration orders did not achieve the desired result In some states and areas all white students dropped out of the public schools inte inte- grated This mass exodus exodus' followed the pattern of events some years ago in Washington Washing Washing- ton DC D.C. THE GREATEST tragedy which could befall the children children chil chil- dren and adults in some areas of the country is a turn which would see one race attending private schools and the other race attending public schools One of the greatest American Ameri Ameri- can institutions is the public school and it has over the centuries instilled democratic concepts in children of all races and faiths in most areas of the country THE PROPER goal for every section of the nation isto is isto isto to keep the public schools as an in institution for all instilling in instilling instilling in- in stilling in its students this democratic concept The goal could be missed if the forces of reaction prevail prevail prevail pre pre- vail but it can also be missed if wisdom and common sense are not employed by the reformers reformers reformers re re- re- re formers in some sections |
