[Leica] Schoolhouse at Besancon, Indiana #6

[Don Dory]

The school my father went to was west of Hastings, Nebraska.  It was a one
room school but that made sense as the population density was very low then
as it is now.  The county wasn't prosperous enough or had the
transportation infrastructure to bus students or otherwise provide a way to
get to school.  So my father rode his horse into Hastings and then went to
school.  An interesting side note is one room schools have one teacher for
all grades.  You would have to be amazingly well grounded in a number of
subjects to teach at all grade levels.  Also, think of the
temperament required to be effective with 5-6 year olds and with teenagers
to about 18 years old.

I don't know about other areas but education was extremely valued in rural
Nebraska both toward the western end (Hastings) and at the eastern end
(Nehawka).  I say this as children were expected to graduate from high
school.  Farm work might take you away for a week in planting(brandining)
season but the work was expected to be made up.  Also, young women had the
same expectations as the men.   I might also add the same general
expectations were from the MIssissippi Delta; obvious Jim Crow exception,
Just my family ethnology.

On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 1:57 PM Alan Magayne-Roshak via LUG <
lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 01 May 2021 Christopher Crawford <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com
> >wrote:
>
> >These schoolhouses had one classroom that took up most of the building.
> Most of them also had two small rooms in the front extension of the
> building, on both sides of the door, >that were for storage and for
> students to hang their coats in the winter. There was no restroom; they had
> outhouses. I've seen a few that had basements, with a second classroom
> >down there, and one that had a second floor with a second classroom. Same
> basic design as the one in the photo, just taller with a second floor.
>
> --
> >Chris Crawford
>
> =========================================================================================================================================
> My mother, who died last June at 99 years, 11 months, taught in a one-room
> schoolhouse as her first job out of Wisconsin State Teachers College in
> 1940.  When war broke out, she joined the Navy and didn't get back into
> teaching until the sixties, when she got her Master's in special education.
>
> --
> Alan
>
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