God bless the teachers who stuck it out. Way back in the 1980s a friend of mine who had moved to Massachusetts and whose older brother was an 8th grade math teacher in our home town connected with me. We visited his older brother and a shop teacher from our old Junior high school. They each had retired literally the day they had become eligible. I asked them why. They said "The kids changed". Nowadays 'the parents have changed', if they are even around or known.
Twenty years or so ago I met a mid school principal, again from my home town. Sadly, she could not name even one student who lived with his or her natural parents, married or even unmarried. They lived with a grandparent, cousin, older sibling or...
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