Well, in spite of all the complaining about teachers and their unions, holidays and wages, school boards with their cushy buildings/offices and bloated administration costs/salaries, impossible-to-meet curriculum requirments, the drastic drop in educational standards that leave today's university professors with no choice but to teach what used to be Grade 6 grammar and spelling etc etc etc .... I am grateful for at least one of the changes I've witnessed since I was in school in the 60's and 70's.

At least today's schoolchildren are no longer subject to either enduring or witnessing public physical or psychological abuse at the hands of teachers and principals. One of my earliest memories is being herded out into the school hallway and forced to watch angry teachers line the children up against the wall and beat on them till they finally broke down and cried.

I'm very grateful my own children received more humane treatment.

daylia