At first there were attempts to keep school going, but, as classes were too often interrupted by field exercises, the mostly frail, elderly teachers refused to travel the wearisome dirt road to our battery.
Yesterday's parade illustrated the diversity in the movement, with marchers representing Polish and Brazilian groups, high school students and the elderly, teachers and firefighters, Republicans and Socialists, Jews and Buddhists.
An elderly teacher points out the spelling mistakes in the graffiti daubed across the town.
Erke Saiputdinova, an elderly teacher of the younger classes, brought some of her students' creations to set on the steps among the flowers.
In one early scene, an elderly teacher painstakingly counts out 26 pieces of chalk, one for each day of the month he will be absent.
"What are we supposed to do, live in a tent?" Measures that voters approved by wide margins -- property tax exemptions for the elderly, teacher salary increases, new parks and open space -- have been eliminated or suspended.
He plays Scott Voss, a lazy, unmotivated 42-year-old biology teacher at a failing Boston high school, who returns to his university sport of wrestling to save the school's music department from being disbanded and its dedicated elderly teacher (a prissy Henry Winkler) from being made redundant.
At first she was tempted to explore a walk-through model of the human heart, but instead she went to the Hall of North America where an attendant was explaining the difference between poisonous and harmless snakes to a class of city school children and their elderly teacher.
"Now it's the moms, the tech workers, the lawyers, children, elderly people, teachers.
The elderly Russian teachers continued to whack me with canes and talk in French.
She makes startlingly analytical use of home-movie footage of her sweet-sixteen party and films a discussion among elderly retired teachers — including her own mother — who recall their own struggles to balance work and family amid the rampant discriminations of their Depression-era employment.
