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Post by boxhead on Jan 4, 2024 22:29:15 GMT -5
Dick,
There is one in Elmira, not far from my place in north Idaho.
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Post by flattopdan on Jan 5, 2024 1:29:01 GMT -5
The next town over from where I live in NH has a one room school house through 6th grade.
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Post by sixshot on Jan 5, 2024 3:43:41 GMT -5
Ed, that must be the other one, right up close to Canada, this one is in Garden Valley according to the lady that visited. I think she was the Education Secretary for the state of Idaho. I think Callshot graduated from there, top 3 in his class..........
Dick
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Post by doninco on Jan 5, 2024 6:14:54 GMT -5
Well I guess at my age it was common to have gone to a one room school, It had six grades one teacher 14 or 15 kids. The house I lived in had a two hole with the coldest seats in Maine winters (was not much reading done there). The kitchen was the warmest place in the whole building as the water was heated in a tank on the end of the stove for the kitchen but the stove had been upgraded to a coil around one burner which fed about a 25 gallon brass water tank that stood next to the stove. You had to go to the barn to fill a glass jug that held about 2.5 gallons of kerosene. Have a nice day Don K
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Post by sharps4590 on Jan 5, 2024 7:16:19 GMT -5
Dad went to a one room school for all 8 grades, Lone Ridge school. The old school was long ago converted into a home and I think it burned down 30 years ago. He and his brothers and one sister walked both ways. The school in my little home town didn't even have school buses. Dad passed two grades in one school year.
Through the 6th grade all my schooling was in one classroom with one teacher and, I either walked or rode my bicycle through the 8th grade.
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Post by bula on Jan 5, 2024 8:47:20 GMT -5
Gnappi, not in a one room school house, but I did 8yrs hard labor in a Catholic School. PTSD ? LOL. But when my parents switched me to public school for 9th grade, was obvious my vocabulary and reading and math was better than the kids that had only been in public schools.
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Post by contender on Jan 5, 2024 10:02:34 GMT -5
Sadly,,, such places are slipping away in America. A true treasure of real honest history. And as noted,, many people got a REAL education, by real teachers that required real work or you failed.
Locally,, a longtime benefactor & also a member of my BSA troop (Eagle Scout too) has build an old-timey town on his property. Included is a small one-room schoolhouse. Sits on the hill,, next to the small church. The church is ordained,, and they have services there once a month. The church is named after his mother,, (Marie's Chapel,) and I was told the school was built to replicate what his mother went to. It's a step back in time to visit Bub's place.
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Post by bula on Jan 5, 2024 12:58:22 GMT -5
Ok, THAT pegs the needle on the cool meter. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by callshot on Jan 5, 2024 13:40:44 GMT -5
Dick, I gradgiated 9th in my class of 18 in the same school that my father attended. It is still there as a school. We also had a two hole outhouse at the ranch. Sears catalog on one side and Montgomery Wards catalog on the other. When spring came we were down to the seed section. Good old days!
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Post by junebug on Jan 5, 2024 20:08:36 GMT -5
Sears and Montgomery Wards ruined their catalogs when they switched to color pictures instead of black and white. It became John Wayne toilet paper then.
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Post by LeverGunner on Jan 5, 2024 20:24:40 GMT -5
Even John Wayne has better sense than to use glossy print paper in the outhouse.
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