Can you provide cites that show that the pay relative to the cost of living
was "much" higher than today?
Lynda
In my case, the quality of education depended upon the quality of the
teacher, all the way from first grade through college, and particularly
in high school, on the quality of the high school principal, who had
free rein in choosing an outstanding staff of teachers. He was
certainly aided by the fact that teachers were relatively much higher
paid than today---attracting the best as in any other business other
than education. In the 1930's, administrators did not blot up the
majority of education funds to defund teachers---Depression Era taxes
had to be focussed on essentials---real essentials. All books were
provided by the school, not as an expense loaded upon parents as today,
and recognizing that food is essential for mental acuity, as well as the
fact that some students might only get one meager meal a day, all
students in Wisconsin got morning milk and some kind of solid food, and
because of the mineral deficiency in Wisconsin soil, iodine tablets.
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