Re: Christmas Program at country school

Posted by Farmer Bob on December 14, 2005 at 08:05:13 from (71.50.8.53):

In Reply to: Christmas Program at country school posted by Nebraska Cowman on December 14, 2005 at 03:47:44:

Ah the memories! NE Iowa 1952, one room country school. Same teacher for all eight grades, wonderful homemade lunch box lunches with a wide mouth thermos full of home made soup on the cold winter days, carried water from a close neighbor everyday in a shotgun can. Always had a Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter program for the students and parents.
No where has one acre of land created so many well educated kids as these relics of the past produced. Recess saw all the kids and the teacher out playing ball, swinging, playing anti-I-over with a ball over the roof of the school, building grass huts in the wovenwire fence, and always trying to get another inning squeezed in before returning to class. Older students helping out the teacher with the younger students, learning phonics, math, geography with Netsook and Klaya who were from Baffin Island, history, spelling, and above all else, learning how to get along with people who didn't always share your views. Arguments were settled on the spot without threats of getting knifed or shot after leaving the school grounds.
A simpler time, a much simpler way of life, hard work was expected as we were all farm raised kids.
Education was set back decades with the closing of these country schools forcing students into the consolidated districts, larger classes, less learning and general unhappiness.

I will cherish the memories of my country school forever!

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