Teachers in the United States - It's a Tough Job

In the fifties and sixties, most teachers in the united states were relatively well educated women who didn't have alternatives to being a nurse or something like that. One of the things we saw was that once you gave women job opportunities being a lawyer, being a business person, doing all kinds of things, being a physician, actually the average aptitude and the average education of teachers in the United States fell. And interestingly enough, it wasn't just it fell among women, but it also fell among blacks, because being a public school teacher was one of th key occupations. If you were a smart black person in the unitedStates, you could be a public School teacher. So ironically