I went to a one-room school (Colfax No. 1) in Colfax Township, Iowa, for my first six years of school. The schoolhouse was on a one-acre plot carved out of the corner of my father's north-central Iowa farm, about a quarter mile from our farmhouse, so the walk wasn't bad; I remember sometimes in kindergarten getting to ride home at noon on the running board of mailman John Thompson's 1938 Chevy. We had to walk a ways down the gravel road to a neighboring farm to carry back water in a shot bucket. The heat was a gravity furnace in the basement, sitting below a huge floor grate. There were two outhouses ("called "lats"), one for boys, one for girls. We recited the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of each class day. The school had been shut down during WWII when the township population declined. It reopened in fall 1954 with about a dozen students in grades K-8. It had only seven students when it closed in 1959. When the school closed, the families in the township divided up the contents. Somehow (through my parents' estate) I have ended up with the school's oak three-stack barrister bookcase, the oak "Regulator" pendulum wall clock, a long, low "kindergarten" table and chairs, and the huge portrait of George Washington whose eyes followed us wherever we were in the classroom. The building itself was later sold and moved to someone's farm as a grain-storage building (kinda sad), and the land reverted to cropland on the farm. From sixth grade through high school I was bused 13 miles to town. In those days the "town folk" often looked down their noses on "farm kids" and considered them kind of backwards, but I went on to eventually earn four college degrees, including a Ph.D. from a Tier 1 university, so I guess country school didn't hurt me all that much.
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