Classroom

Desegregation of schools in the Deep South brought with it a multitude of problems. One of them was fights among high school students. Often they were serious in nature. Consequently, many efforts were made to stop them before they started. A parallel problem was rumors. They seemed to spread like wildfire. One spring afternoon, I received a report that a "rumble" was to take place the next morning in one of our rural high schools. The rumor included sheriff's deputies coming in with dogs to quell the fight.

WASHINGTON COUNTY -- Students at Boonsboro Middle School will have a multimedia program, and Antietam Academy Middle School students will start their own extracurricular chess club with help from grants provided through the Washington County Public Schools Education Foundation. The grants, totaling about $5,000 were distributed Friday. They range from $200 to $944.80. More than 40 teachers applied for the grants, and nine were awarded, said Dale Bannon, director of system development.