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I knew a lady who was born in the 1890’s and who had passed the entrance exam to attend a RURAL (very rural) Pennsylvania High School in the 1910’s.

She had four years of French, four years of Latin, four years of German, and three years of Greek.

My grandmother, who was born in the 1890s, had algebra, geometry, and French in a NYC public grammar school, when the public schools in NYC were excellent and on a higher level than most elite/posh boarding ( that's high school level ) schools of the 1950s and had a higher level of what was taught than today's Ivies!

And don't even get e started on the high level of education that she got in high school! LOL

Today's education, on ALL levels and for ALL venues ( including homeschoolers! ) is extremely low!

But thankfully, some parents and grandparents still take their responsibilities, to children, seriously and expose them to many things that they will NEVER get in any school. It's just a shame that they are few in number.