@edgarblythe,
Well that certainly would have made my job easier when I was teaching.
...unless of course only the smart children decided to eschew education. Then I'd have been completely screwed.
...now that I think back on it, quite often it was the brighter ones who would cut class. Yep, I'd have been screwed. (and yet people wonder why I despise the Osmonds...well, not Marie)