blackboard jungle
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In the air-conditioned calm of office cubicles, grey-flanneled young Ph.D.s sit sipping coffee and chalking abstruse formulas on a blackboard jungle of schoolmasters' slates.
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This fall, divorced and shy of cash, she nervously switched the girls to what is supposed to be a "blackboard jungle" junior high school on the upper West Side.
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The setting for this crime wave is not an inner-city blackboard jungle but suburban Evanston Township High School on Chicago's elm-shaded, affluent North Shore.
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A British expedition into the blackboard jungle, with Sidney Poitier investing subtle warmth into the part of a starchy teacher in a slum school.
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Whether it is blackboard jungle, red-tape jumble, a place of learning or a collective holding pen for the hapless young, the modern classroom, teachers claim, is out of teachers' control.
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