EDUCATION
Campaign saves Dial-A-Teacher homework hot line
Posted on Mon, May. 12, 2008
BY KATHLEEN McGRORY
MARICE COHN BAND/MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Robert Cummings hands Andrea Spivak the telephone in the office of the Dial-A-Teacher homework hot line. At right is CJ Daly.
For Bob Mandell, the bad news came on a Wednesday evening.
Dial-A-Teacher, the homework-help hot line to which he had devoted nearly two decades of service, would be closing for good the following day.
For the first time in 31 years, the hundreds of calls from students seeking help with their homework would go unanswered.
Mandell, a retired teacher who earned a reputation for taking on the Miami-Dade County School Board, wouldn't stand for it. So the night of the next School Board meeting in April, he stood before the board and pleaded his case.
''We all got together before the meeting, but I was sure it wouldn't do any good,'' said Mandell, 74, of his Dial-A-Teacher colleagues. ``We had to try, but I was telling everybody to prepare for the worst. [Read more…]
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