[Elsie]

More than 120 million copies of McGuffey Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960,^[1] placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary.^[2]

 

^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Holmes_McGuffey}

[mewzilla]

Home schoolers ought to look at those if they haven’t. They’re a great resource.

BTW, that money likely wasn’t for students’ benefit. I’m thinking the teachers’ pension fund/s.