Ybor City Tape

 Wilson interview

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 W: They wouldn't.

 M: They just ignored it?

 W: Yeah. Only time a parent got involved when the kid got in trouble.

 M: That was the relationship between the school and the parent.

 W: Yeah. Or the parents would run to the trustee; ''that's why

 I elected you, to look after me." And the trustee would get

 in touch with me and I'd tell them my side of the story and

 the !. get the parent down and see them.

 M: Well, would these be Latin parents.talking to ...?

 W: Latin trustees.

 M: Oh, they had Latin trustees. I didn't know that.

 W: Yeah. Angelo Greco and Jimmy Greco was one of the district

 4 trustees. We always had.a Latin on there.

 M: Yeah, well, I just didn't know. I thought they were Anglos.

 W: No.

 M: Anglo-Americans.

 W: George Chamberlain was a trustee at one time;

 from Plant City; and Jimmy Greco were the three trustees.

 M: You had Latin trustees breathing down your neck all the time.

 W: Oh, occasionally.

 -Ju. They hired the teachers, they hired me.

A-W- How did they feel about your administration there?

 W: Well, apparently they liked it. They left me there for ten

 years until I asked to move.

 M: Uh, huh.