"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
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On 3/27/13 8:30 AM, Eisboch wrote:


"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
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My memory of "Blackboard Jungle" was that the school *was* co-ed. I
could be wrong about that. Hey, who would want to go to a
single-gender
high school, anyway?

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Pretty sure it was a boy's only vocational high school in New York
City
although it had at least one female teacher.

It was a novel by Evan Hunter later made into a movie back in the
50's.

I saw the movie when it first came out at the Whalley Theater which,
sadly, is now no longer a theater. I think I was about 11 or 12. My
mom
took me to a matinee. I just can't remember whether it was a
single-gender school in the movie. Next time it pops up on cable, I'll
watch it.

Do you recall "Hopkins Grammar School" in New Haven? Private boys'
school. It merged with a private girls school some years ago. I had
some
friends who went to Hopkins and we always teased them about their
"School for Monks." The great Hillhouse football/basketball player,
Floyd Little, went to Bordentown Military Prep, an all boys prep
school,
to toughen up after "normal" high school, before he went on to
Syracuse
University.

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No recollection of Hopkins Grammar School. We only lived in the area
for about 2 and a half years and I was in high school.

My mother had (and still has) a voracious appetite for books and
reading. She's 88 now and in a nursing home. We got her a Kindle and
an account at Amazon and had to have her own Wi-Fi set up in her room
so she can download books. She also still uses her laptop daily for
news and email.

When I was a kid she insisted that I read at least three books during
summer vacations. She didn't care what I read as long as I read
something.
I remember plowing through "Hawaii" by James Michner soon after it
first came out. I was about 10 or 11 years old. It had some content
that some thought was too adult for a 10 or 11 year old, but she
didn't care. It was a great book and I've reread it a couple of
times.

The only time she "interfered" with what I read was one summer when I
got hung up on the original "Hardy Boys" series. I think there were
about 26 of them at that time. After a while my mother suggested
that although the Hardy Boy's stories were good to read, I should also
read other stuff as well. Most I really don't remember but a few have
stuck in my head, like "The Blackboard Jungle", "Hawaii", "The
Miracle of the Bells", "The Little World of Don Camillo" and a few
others.