After a recent elementary-school awards assembly, I was chatting with a mother and father and mentioned how energetic, vivacious and kind our school's principal is, in contrast to the dour ascetic I remember from my elementary-school days.
They said all they remembered from "primary school" (they are from England) was the little bottle of state-supplied milk that they drank with lunch. That is, until Margaret Thatcher became Education Secretary in 1970 and started charging for the milk, earning her the unhappy soubriquet "Maggie Thatcher the Milk-Snatcher."
It was probably all for the best, though, pointed out the father, as the milk always seemed to be too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter.
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