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Location: Oklahoma(formerly SoCalif) Originally Mich,
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I taught in one room country schools across our state over the years. I'm curious how many people here attended a one room school in our state. If you care to share, where was it? There are still a number of one and two room schools in this state.
I don't think there's anything like a country school. I have yet to run into anyone who didn't have a good experience in country school.
I have a webpage on one room country schools where I've posted pictures of them. I have some that I'm looking for yet.
So, let's hear about our country school experiences.
Wher's a link to your webpage?
------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Jammie.
Not in So. Dakota but in Michigan I attended a 1 room school, 1 teacher, 6 classes. It was called "Selma 5". There was a "Selma 4" also.
Big play ground. It looked more like a country church.
On the wall above the chalkboard was a "paddle" engraved on the paddle was,
"The Board of Education, To The Seat of Understanding"
Here a Picture of our "1961" year book
I'm still intouch with some of these people.
OMG, I love the yearbook. Unfortunately, we didn't have one, but we did get our pic taken every year. I still have the pics from all my little friends back then. Thank you for posting that.
Wow there are still country schools huh? I went to the Bench School in Meade County back in the early 60's. I went there for all of 1st grade and then they closed the school. My teacher was Mrs. Poor. She was wonderful!!! I became a great reader and pretty good student thanks to her. There were 10 kids between 1st and 8th grade at the beginning of the year, but by the end of the year only 2 of us were left, me a 1st grader and Fred McPherson an eighth grader, who drove himself to school!!!
The school building was moved on to our old ranch years later and is completely gone now. Wish I had a picture of it but I don't.
Linda
Linda, I think that they've closed down all the country schools in So. Dak. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Back in the 70s there started to be fewer of us farm kids because farmers were buying larger equipment and farming more acres then in the past. That happened soon after I was out of grade school. It seemed like the taxpayers felt they couldn't keep supporting the little country schools anymore cause there were so few children. Kinda sad, but I guess that's life.
Location: Oklahoma(formerly SoCalif) Originally Mich,
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I had one of the complete school and playground. This is all I could find.
This was taken about 10 years after it closed down, around "71".
Someone was living in it.
Location: Oklahoma(formerly SoCalif) Originally Mich,
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Linda, I think that they've closed down all the country schools in So. Dak.
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Back in the 70s there started to be fewer of us farm kids because farmers were buying larger equipment and farming more acres then in the past.
That happened soon after I was out of grade school. It seemed like the taxpayers felt they couldn't keep supporting the little country schools anymore cause there were so few children. Kinda sad, but I guess that's life.
It's called, "Corperate Farming" Corperations started to buy out Independent Farmers like us and then that's where all of the farm equipment came in.
To stay afloat, independent farmers had to grow and harvest more crops in a shorter amout of time. To do this, Larger and more efficient equipment was needed.
I was with the "Dept, of Agriculture" in Ca.
I hated to see the small farmers get wiped out.
We had a Dairy Farm in Michigan.
I'll admit, having lived in SD for a few years, and near most of my life, I can't think of anywhere there are still country schools. But I by no means know the state well enough to say for sure!
Nebraska still has quite a few though, particularly in the Sandhills where people are so far from town, and so sparsely populated.
I knew of two country schools in S Dak about 10 years ago. Both were between Belle F. and Buffalo. Dont know if they are still going or not. Back then I recharged fire ext. on site. At both schools the entire school came out to my truck and watched. The teacher said that the children would have to write an essay on what they seen. I think thats the only time anyone ever payed attention to what I did. I was only in the "spotlight" for 15 minutes.
Bob
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We had never heard of them when I went to grade school. Of course, that was back in the 60s.
Country Schools in South Dakota
