On Sunday, November 16, 2014 7:30:01 PM UTC-5, Phil Kane wrote:   
      
   > Even in the early '50s there was a hierarchy of "problem" schools.   
      
   I forgot to mention that actor Tony Danza (originally from Brooklyn with a   
   college education), spent a year as a teacher in Phila at Northeast High   
   School.  He wrote a book about it, which reads very simliar to Up the Down   
   Starircase.  He described it as    
   a tough inner city school.  This was sad for me to read since about 30 years   
   earlier the schoool, serving a solid middle-middle class neighborhood, was   
   once a top achieving place.  Urban flight left the serving neighborhood a   
   slum, despite high quality    
   housing stock.   
      
      
      
   ob transit:  The Rt 59 trackless trolley is about a mile away on Castor Ave.    
   This was once a very busy shopping district but has seen better days.  NEHS,   
   having been built in the 1950s, was always served by surface bus routes, no   
   streetcars.   
      
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