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While school administrators returned to conservatism, teachers became more militant. Many educators became radicalized by their everyday experience with students, who were miserable for want of good food, clothing, or shelter. In 1932 the New York Health Department reported that 20.5 percent of schoolchildren were suffering from malnutrition. The American Friends Service Committee found similar conditions among 10 percent of students in Illinois, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania. Teachers responded with compassion. In Detroit schoolteachers collected shoes for thousands of barefoot pupils and contributed thirty thousand dollars to a general relief fund; in New York, rather than let their students go hungry, teachers paid for children's lunches from their own meager salaries, feeding more than eleven thousand children; in San Jose, teachers gave 5 percent of their salaries to provide clothing, blankets, medicine, and food. Teachers at Libbey High School in Toledo, Ohio, began a program of student work...
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