rtember 17,
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1 ' v By JIM PANYARD
■ Of The Bulletin Staff
Claymont — Being an Italian with a turns from Worte^ r*
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Puerto Rican wife, black neighbors, Rapposelli’s four older daughters
rh£ dau|hters V1??-! son’ Ar- are in college or at Claymont High, as
i F. Rapposelli said, *1 don’t need they were last year. His 6-year-old son
.f moanc tn - js attending the same grammar school
anyone to teach me what jt means, to *
be integrated.” V •'
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In fact, the burly 50-year-old former
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But Margaret is at a critical age, .
teacher, who was Delaware’s High? said Rapposelli, who was a teacher for \
School Football Coach of the Year lr| 17 years before he suffered a stroke on •
1969 when his Claymont High Indian! thfe football field in 1972 that doctors 1
were the number one team in the said was due to hyperteiisioh.
state* feels “forced busing” for racist * ~ ‘ : • . •
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integration in the New Castle Count
schools is a waste of time and effort*
I And that is one of the reasons h1
^daughter, Margaret, 13, isn’t riding
; the bus with her former classmates 20
miles each day in the round trip to
l P.S. duPont Middle .School,. in Wil¬
mington.:
Now in charge of educal
“There is no doubt in my mind she
can ride a bus. That’s not the prob¬
lem. Grades 7, 8 and 9 are the worst
stages of education you can find. The
kids are like colts turning into horses.
They need control,” he said.
"Considering all the time,, money
and effort spent getting ready for
opening day, it would have taken a,
ser- > miracle to make it hot work. But edu-
vices for the State Highway „Depart-1 cation is an easy subject to foolpeople
hient, Rapposelli was a member of the . on.*” Rapposelli said.
Claymont School Board until it was «Reading the papers makes it
dissolved on June 30 and
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separate Ozzie and Harriet Butv
county school districts were consoli- there are little volcanos building,” he
dated in the Single New Castle County sajd
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Board of Education. Ranposelli said be would love jp send1
But last Monday, when the busing Margaret to a private school, "but
program ordered by Federal Judge ?taply can’t afford it. Even ttieoheki
Murray M. Schwartz Went Into effect, est me ig about $1,500 a year. I mata
Margaret didn’t have to go the bus and have eight mouths to feed,
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stop. Oh* she wanted to go, her father You figure it oufy ^ ^ ^ i * !
admits, “But she is not going to miss
anything educationally. She’s hurt and
feels she’s missing something. Maybe
she is missing some fun. My wife and
I feel hurt inside that she has to feel
that way.” il:r%
Rapposelli has a routine schedule
for his daughter to follow on week
days with a class schedule that in--
eludes science, English, Spanish,
math and social studies* If she has
problems, Rapposelli,' an accredited
teacher, helps her at night, when he re-
