Hounded by lurid headlines; the New York City public schools last month suspended some 900 classroom toughs after a series of blackboard-jungle incidents ranging from rowdyism to rape (TIME, Feb. 10, 17). But the suspensions only postponed the basic problem: Where can the tough kids go to school?
Last week, grasping at a temporary solution, the city cleaned out two abandoned school buildings, brought in new furniture and began to hunt for ways of handling boys with some of the sorriest records in town (assaults on principals, sexual advances, purse-snatching).
The all-male schools, called "7005" (to tag them as a separate series), met...
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