Boomer here. Elementary school had an odd pattern: the odd grades, 1, 3, and 5, had wonderful teachers. Second had a sullen disciplinarian, 4th was OK, and 6th

Boomer here. Elementary school had an odd pattern: the odd grades, 1, 3, and 5, had wonderful teachers. Second had a sullen disciplinarian, 4th was OK, and 6th ended up with my parents pulling me out of that school for another. In extenuation of the second-grade teacher's performance, there were fifty-two kids in the class. The fifth to sixth transition was awful, though. After that, we always had multiple teachers, and they were of course a real mix, some very good, some seemed hardly employable.