“And Douglass High School has both a principal making $147,000 an assistant principal making $122,000 – all for managing just 44 students.”
My 8th grade class in grammar school had about that many students - at the cost of a nun who was making room and board (and we all learned to read at grade level or better).
—” at the cost of a nun who was making room and board (and we all learned to read at grade level or better).”
Fortunately, my parents made an escape from Portage Park (Smyser school)up to Glenview!
I attended the Lutheran school and most attended OLPH, only one kid in the entire neighborhood went to the public school (Lyon Elementary).
I never heard of any students not being able to read.
And I’m forever jealous of my buddies who learned a deep understanding of Latin. Very useful to this day.
My 8th grade class in grammar school had about that many students - at the cost of a nun who was making room and board (and we all learned to read at grade level or better).
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Total enrolment at my little school, grades 1 thru 12, was about 350.
Grades 1-6 had 1 teacher per grade. Grades 7&8 had 2 teachers one taught English and history and geography to both grades. Math and science both grades was taught by one man who was also the grade school principal. In high school the principal also taught all math classes. Even the superintendent taught a few classes.
Tax payers got their money’s worth in the ‘50s and ‘60s (at least in small town Missouri they did.)