We need to hire more … Oh.

From Census Bureau numbers, as extrapolated by Red State:

1960 -- 1.4 million public school teachers taught 36.3 million primary and secondary students. This represented a ratio of one teacher per 25.8 pupils.

2009 -- 3.2 million teachers - a 129 percent rise - taught 49.3 million students - a 36 percent rise. This represented a ratio of one teacher per 15.6 students.

1985 -- the average public school primary and secondary school teacher earned $23,587 a year, or $49,309 adjusted for inflation. In 2011, he or she earned $54,220, a ten percent increase. (Do those figures translate into a real increase of $5,000 over a 26-year period?)

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/06/11/media-myth-debunked-number-teachers-increased-four-times-faster-stude#ixzz1xac1q1UM