Posted by Eric SEI on December 06, 2008 at 18:23:59 from (208.102.160.108):
In Reply to: school back then posted by n8terry on December 05, 2008 at 18:16:32:
Around 1920 the farmers in my area told the township trustees "you buy the materials and we'll build a school". They built a brick building with a gym in the basement and all 12 grades on the 2 floors above. They closed 16 one room school hoses and one two room school house. Before that anybody going to HS had to go to town.
My first grade teacher had taught the grand parents of some of my classmates, she taught almost every year that school was open (closed by consolidation in 1973). Before my time it had outhouses, when I was there they had been placed next to the fence and used for storage. We had a concrete block building between the school and the baseball field where the restrooms were.
Our schools are a lot nicer now, but I'm not convinced the education is any better. The bus rides are longer now.
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