And they say the 1950's were boring!
Check this photo from the May 8, 1950 edition of Life magazine: students "rioting" in the streets for better salaries for their teachers, after their teachers refused to take on extra duties like chaperoning proms after being denied raises.
Their teachers, paid salaries of from $2500 to $5,325, had been asking $600 raises, but were offered only $150-$200 instead:
25,000 students held "mass rallies all over NY which had the police department jumping. Carring banners on which their pro-teacher sentiments were scrawled in lipstick, they held up subway trains, wrecked