ABSTRACT
The New York City school system is in the midst of a crisis, the full impact of which is likely to be far more serious than any it has yet faced. Since World War II, increasing numbers of Southern Blacks have been entering Northern cities—economically handicapped by a lack of adequate training and education, and socially rejected on the basis of racial discrimination. New York was one such place where many thought they would finally find economic security which had always been so elusive. Many parents and children have little understanding of what education involves; many find the teachers' value system incomprehensible. Many parents of predominantly middle-class children who attend schools into which Black pupils are bused have come to accept the inevitability of integration, especially of children who are quite like their own. The society into which many Blacks want admission is a middle-class society, and the values they hold and want their children to embrace are middle-class values.
