Article Brings Rebuttal - Two Middletown school leaders last week figuratively ripped into little pieces a Collier’s magazine article that had charged educators with achieving a "stranglehold" on some of the nation's schools. At the same time, a PTO president and a school board member found the essay crammed with insights into difficulties that had blossomed elsewhere in the United States but not in Middletown. The title of the article, written by Howard Whitman, was "The Struggle For Our Children’s Minds; Speak Out, Silent People." First of a series, it is appearing in the current issue of the periodical. Themes of Whitman's report were: 1. Educators control the schools, 2. "Children were sent to school to learn and many of them weren't learning as much or as fast as they should," 3. "If you and I remain silent" about this situation, "we are beaten..."

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