Re: How many went to one room school?

Posted by Dean on January 10, 2016 at 08:56:53 from (68.50.166.168):

In Reply to: Re: How many went to one room school? posted by GVSII on January 10, 2016 at 07:36:29:

I attended a two room country school for grades 1-6.

Grades 1-3 were in the "Little Room" and grades 4-6 were in the "Big Room." There were two teachers, one for each room.

For my first three years, there was a parlor stove near the back of each room. One of the boys in grade 6 was responsible for bringing coal from the coal shed (We played Annie Over over the coal shed with the playground ball during recess and lunch periods.) In the winter, those of us who sat near the back roasted while those who sat near the front usually wore their coats. We had a rack where we could dry our mittons near the stove after recess and lunch. In the summer between my 3rd and 4th grade years, the county installed oil furnaces, one for each room. After installation of the oil furnaces, we put our mittons on the floor registers.

Outside were separate Boys and Girls out houses. Water was supplied from a cistern supplied from roof gutters. There was a tank pump in the "utility room." We were forbidden to enter the utility room. In the hallway between the two rooms was a candy machine and a milk machine. Those of us with a nickle could buy a candy bar. A half pint bottle of milk, either white or chololate, in a glass bottle could be bought for, IIRC, 2 cents. No doubt the milk was subsidized. The empty bottles were returned to a crate beside the milk machine for pick up early the next morning by the "milk man" in the Divco milk truck.

The school was closed one year after my 6th grade but is still used as a polling place. I visit every couple of years to vote in the Little Room. Each time I visit, I marvel at the book shelf that still contains a couple of racks of Dick and Jane readers. I have not been in the Big Room since 1961. The coal shed was demolished to build a fire house.

Though the school is less than half of a mile from my place as the crow files, I rode a school bus and did not need to walk, even though it was uphill both ways.

Dean

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