[backhoe]

Naturally, I agree- both my parents ( b. 1890 & 1918 ) learned in a one-room schoolhouse, and I suspect what passed for high school level then would be college level now. If not higher. They really knew "a lot of stuff about everything."

[FITZ]

My father once pointed out that a lot of this is because they won't let the drop-outs drop out so they keep bringing the schools down, they should be out on the streets where they belong, or out working menial jobs like people who didn't want to stay in school in the past had to do.