The retired school teacher in our neighbor hood get's over 4,000.00 a month retirement. Then a boy i went to school with became a school teacher but knew he would never get rich teaching so he quit to dig ditches. Now wished he had stayed teaching. This was in Minnesota. Do any of you ever read the stat's on smartest children state by state? It always surprised me that N.D. an MN, were the two best one's. But my youngest daughter has Cerebal Palsy and her normal grade's were c an D. One winter we lived in WA. state because my Uncle was dying. My dau. went to school from Jan. to May. Her's grade's were all A + B's. One day i asked her how come she couldnt get grade's like that at home. She said you will never believe this ma but they say i'm about the smartest girl in the whole school. I thought i was hearing thing's. Then she said well what they are teaching now we learned two year's ago and then she said they had so many art and craft classes. Which i could not understand. Because what does art do for spelling or geography??? Also when you read the want ad's families from N.Y. and CA. Etc want N.D. and MN. girls for nannies plus light house work. Which always made me proud but also made me afraid for them because i always think like a MN. mother. They want our girl's because they think they will be gullible but believe you me that the sex education start's here in kindergarten!! Viola.