From: Phil.Kane@nov.shmovz.ka.pop   
      
   On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 09:16:50 -0500, Peter Schleifer   
    wrote:   
      
   >My grandfather retired early from teaching at Thomas Jefferson HS in   
   >East New York in the late '50's   
      
   My late brother Andy graduated from Jeff in 1957 so he may very well   
   have been in one of his classes.   
      
   >because the kids and the neighborhood were getting too rough.   
      
   The neighborhood was changing as the Jewish families moved from the   
   apartments in ENY to 1 or 2 family houses in the new Canarsie   
   developments and recent arrivals from Puerto Rico moved into ENY, a   
   replay of what happened at the end of WW-I when the families from the   
   Lower East Side tenements moved into ENY as it was being developed.   
      
   > By that he meant the kids had no respect for teachers, not stabbing or   
   > shooting people (that came later).   
      
   When I was in shop class in JHS in 1949 we were making lamps and we   
   were issued 1" long nipples (1/4 inch inside diameter hollow threaded   
   cylinders where the lamp cord passed through) with the explanation   
   that this was all we were allowed to get because some of the kids (in   
   other schools, naturally) figured out how to use longer sections to   
   make 22-caliber Zip guns.  And this was in a "good" neighborhood.   
      
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   Phil Kane - Beaverton, OR   
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