Ding Dong! The Rural Schools Are Gone

Tales of bygone days…1 room, 40 students, 8 grades, 1 teacher
You may be too young to remember attending a ‘one-room schoolhouse’, but someone in your family probably passed down the tales of your grandparent’s growing up in these schools.
Children really did walk through knee-high snow to get to school. Frost caked the windows. The rooms were cold enough to see your breath and put a chill clear to one’s bones. Yet, these schools helped mold the children of early pioneers and multilingual immigrants into literate and patriotic citizens of a new nation.
Walk through the countryside to school with us. Make rural schools come alive again as we share stories of those early years.
by Vivian V. Lund (Author), Dr. Vera E. Williams (Author), Jill S Flateland (Editor)