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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'>On 3/12/07 11:40 AM, "Robert Lawless" <robert.lawless@wichita.edu> wrote:<BR>
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> I certainly haven't heard that in a long, long while. Has it completely gone <BR>
> out of style? Or is it just that I have no acquaintance with private boys' <BR>
> schools?<BR>
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> At 10:00 AM 3/12/2007, Kephart, Ronald wrote: All this reminds me of my first <BR>
> teaching job, at an exclusive private boys’ school here in Jacksonville, <BR>
> Florida, 1969-70. On any day that I didn’t assign homework, >> somebody was <BR>
> sure to say “that’s really white of you, Mr. Kephart.”<BR>
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Robert, to be honest, I don’t think I’ve heard it since then, only in that <BR>
specific time and place. The school in question is no longer exclusively <BR>
“white,” by the way; they let pretty much anyone with money in now.<BR>
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I should add that this was real culture shock for me back then, coming as I <BR>
did from an already-integrated school system. And, it was part of what drove <BR>
me into the Peace Corps.<BR>
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Ron<BR>
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