Jackson Advocate

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Persistence For Solutions

"I say to the parents at Junior High School 258 and to the parents at any de factor segregated school in our system," Mr. Silver wrote Mrs. Jacobs, "that the door is never closed to finding a solution to that problem.

"The particular set of circumstances may stymie us momentarily, but we will keep trying.

"We must keep trying as long as we have our integration policy, and we must have that policy as long as we consider ourselves right-thinking people of goodwill, properly reflecting the efforts of our citizens to achieve the ultimate in Democratic living."

Goal For City's Pupils

Mr. Silver granted that "we have not reached perfection by any means in New York," but said that the city was in the "forefront" of those trying to achieve integration.

"I know I express the true and considered thinking of the members of the Board of Education and the Superintendent of Schools," he said, "when I say that I have confidence that the parents of this city want our schools to reflect our Democratic philosophy."

The school board head said he regretted "disruptions" to the co-operative efforts of school officials and citizens to formulate an integration program.

"It is probably to be expected that so complex a problem, in so complex a system, will give rise to an occasional misunderstanding, discouragement or disappointment," he wrote. "It is also to be expected, however, that we will rise above any of these and, with mutual goodwill and good faith."