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Anxiety, Achievement, and Pupil Behavior in Children Attending Schools with Shelter Facilities*:

Anxiety, Achievement, and Pupil Behavior in Children Attending Schools with Shelter Facilities*: ANXIETY, ACHIEVEMENT, AND PUPIL BEHAVIOR IN CHILDREN ATTENDING SCHOOLS WITH SHELTER FACILITIES* FRANK W. LUTZ New York University INTRODUCTION There has been much opposition to the building of school-shelter facilities on the assumption that they might have an undesirable effect on pupils and on society as a whole. Perhaps some of this was a natural response from groups that oppose civil defense and shelter building in general. In this instance, the criticism took the form of suggesting that the pupils would be harmed. Articles in popular journals described the school as "an instrument of the cold war," "a sin," and "a school with a morgue.77 Philosophically, there was opposition to the notion of man returning to caves and becoming less than a man. If a program of school- shelter building was to be undertaken, civil-defense officials and educators had to know if the objections being voiced were supported by data. When the Abo Elementary School and Fallout Shelter began operation in September 1962, it presented an opportunity to collect data pertinent to this question. On the basis of the literature available at that time, one would have been forced to hypothesize that a school shelter would in­ crease the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Educational Research Journal SAGE

Anxiety, Achievement, and Pupil Behavior in Children Attending Schools with Shelter Facilities*:

American Educational Research Journal , Volume 2 (4): 5 – Jun 23, 2016

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0002-8312
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ANXIETY, ACHIEVEMENT, AND PUPIL BEHAVIOR IN CHILDREN ATTENDING SCHOOLS WITH SHELTER FACILITIES* FRANK W. LUTZ New York University INTRODUCTION There has been much opposition to the building of school-shelter facilities on the assumption that they might have an undesirable effect on pupils and on society as a whole. Perhaps some of this was a natural response from groups that oppose civil defense and shelter building in general. In this instance, the criticism took the form of suggesting that the pupils would be harmed. Articles in popular journals described the school as "an instrument of the cold war," "a sin," and "a school with a morgue.77 Philosophically, there was opposition to the notion of man returning to caves and becoming less than a man. If a program of school- shelter building was to be undertaken, civil-defense officials and educators had to know if the objections being voiced were supported by data. When the Abo Elementary School and Fallout Shelter began operation in September 1962, it presented an opportunity to collect data pertinent to this question. On the basis of the literature available at that time, one would have been forced to hypothesize that a school shelter would in­ crease the

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Published: Jun 23, 2016

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