A Changing East Flatbush, A Changing Tilden
Tilden High School's demographics continued to change into the 1970s and 1980s paralleling changes in the surrounding neighborhood, East Flatbush. The neighborhood saw increased immigration from the Caribbean. Media coverage of Samuel J. Tilden also changed, with a focus on incidents of violence. Although crime had become a problem in East Flatbush, the media coverage prompted the then principal Everett Kerner to state that the high school was getting a "bum rap.”
Read more about this topic: Samuel J. Tilden High School
Famous quotes containing the words changing and/or east:
“Sweet love, I see, changing his property,
Turns to the sourest and most deadly hate.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The East is marvellously interesting for tracing our steps back. But for going forward, it is nothing. All it can hope for is to be fertilised by Europe, so that it can start on a new phase.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)