They might not have made us perfect spellers, but I doubt our teachers in the old days would have shown such a massive disregard for the electorally expressed will of the people as they have in Wisconsin.
For all the grief my mayhem brought to my 1st grade teacher, I cannot blame her if she became a Bolshevik. :)
A couple of years ago my mom came across a 2nd grade report card for me. The teacher’s note said that “(rockrr) keeps a messy desk”. Some things never change ;-)