LOL! A lot of my cousins went through that.
I went to what was probably a typical suburban elementary school in the late 1950s-mid 1960s.
What I notice is that the teachers seemed a lot more mature and better educated than many elementary school teachers that we have today.
And the kids were better behaved. Mostly from two-parent families, with moms at home.
You got that right! I don’t recall a single kid I grew up with coming from a broken home. Everybody had two parents and hardly any moms worked. The word “divorce” was occasionally whispered.