Especially after WWII many schools at all levels went crazy and greedy for money particularly for administrative costs and salaries. The trend was exacerbated by the availability of G.I. Bill money by which any non-suited person could go and get a degree to teach. The entire education system has been dumbed down for years where the intent is just to have some piece of paper called a diploma in anything not useful to employers needing those with a real education to do the work needed and paid for..
“Especially after WWII many schools at all levels went crazy and greedy for money...”
My wife is from the other side of the country. They dealt with things different there. Classes were 40 kids, they behaved (or painfully learned to behave), and EVERYONE respected the teachers.
Here it’s different. We have classes half that size in our inner cities, and the teachers are such crap that it’s hard to blame the parents for not respecting them. Read Thomas Sowell and you’ll see where what profession that last 25% of college-bound graduates went into (hint, it has a lot to do with this thread).