Reply #69: So of course you do understand that 1946 might have been

[Bluenorthwest]

'better' for you, which means you are straight and white, and probably male. You are out of touch with reality. Teachers I know most certainly can diagram or conjugate a sentence in at least two languages. In '46, most of them spoke English only, they were all women, they were all white. At least in the white schools. Such a charming time.
One man's glass ceiling is another man's floor I guess. Just for those of us who are not part of your majority population, things in the halcyon days you recall were awful. Dogs. Arrests, segregation, oppression.
During your youth, there were civil rights marches, murders and arrests, there was war, the draft, the Stonewall riots. Great times. To me, today looks so much better than then, I can not tell you.

But then yours is the generation that made a star out of Pat Boone after his performance on The Original Amateur Hour. It was American Idol in black and white. Was black and white better too?