Compare the number of students in a class room back then versus now, the amount of classes taught by a teacher back then versus now, and the compensation and retirement plans then versus now, and it a disaster in results for the kids and a windfall for the teachers ( ed yoo kay turs ).

Our Liberties We Prize and Our Rights We Will Maintain If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and will never be.----Thomas Jefferson