Your first school

[flyerdan]

First for me was Evergreen elementary, a two room schoolhouse that did grades 1-6. There were typically around 30-34 students for the whole school. Here's a pic of 4-6, must have been '67 or '68. I went with this one rather than an earlier on as it has part of the building in it.

 

[Deere Dude]

I can't remember much about my first school, but I do remember this one. It is a one room school house; all eight grades, one teacher, no running water; a pot belly stove for heat in the Winter and open windows in the Spring and Fall. It was named "Chapman" school, near Pierce City Missouri.

Jolly Mill - Joplin MO Life

P.S. My Dad used to take us trout fishing at the Jolly Mill. I caught a HUGE one on a grasshopper.

Sounds like my experience in Waupun, Wisconsin. A one room school house with 1-8th or 12th grade. I forget. Around 25-30 kids. One teacher. No kindergarten. Went to grade 1 there and then they ripped it down. Two + miles from home and in the middle of nowhere. Had to walk it most days. Lots of snow at times.

 

[Bird]

I started school in the first grade in 1946. There was NO kindergarten back then. The building was out in the country and nothing but that one school building and gymnasium out there. The old original building is still there and still in use . . .But . . .the inside has been completely gutted and rebuilt since I went to school there, and huge additional buildings for elementary, junior high, high school, athletic facilities, etc., etc. The city limits have moved out there, new residential developments, etc. out there now.

 

[turnkey4099]

Sounds like my experience in Waupun, Wisconsin. A one room school house with 1-8th or 12th grade. I forget. Around 25-30 kids. One teacher. No kindergarten. Went to grade 1 there and then they ripped it down. Two + miles from home and in the middle of nowhere. Had to walk it most days. Lots of snow at times.

Similar to mine, one room, big stove in corner, outhouses for facilities. Bucket of water with a dipper, drawn from a well. 1-8 grades and I think the high count curing myi 8 years was 10. We moved to a different farm in 1951 and they closed the school, consolidated with others in town. All students up to 3 miles away made their own way, bike, walk, horse, one guy had a cushman scooter. The 7&8 grade kids usually had an old junker of car, mostly model A.

 

[Dftodd]

Town I lived in was very small. School. I started in only handled first thru 3rd grade and only had 1 room and two teachers. 4th grade on up, the kids got bussed down the mountain to a larger town.

My class was the largest the school had in years with 9 kids. 2nd grade had 1 kid and 3rd grade had 2 kids. For a total of 12 kids in the whole school.

Parents got separated and divorced while I was in first grade. Mom moved to a bigger town and my twin brother and I moved to a bigger school as well. School handled 1st thru 6 grade. And had about 15 students or so per grade. School was set up into 3 class rooms of about 30 students each. With grades 1 and 2 in one class, 3 and 4 in another class, and 5 and 6 in the last classroom. Some lessons were shared between the two grades, while others were divided depending on the topic.

 

[Leejohn]

I can't remember much about my first school, but I do remember this one. It is a one room school house; all eight grades, one teacher, no running water; a pot belly stove for heat in the Winter and open windows in the Spring and Fall. It was named "Chapman" school, near Pierce City Missouri.

Jolly Mill - Joplin MO Life

P.S. My Dad used to take us trout fishing at the Jolly Mill. I caught a HUGE one on a grasshopper.

Mine was also a one room, 1 thru 8th.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Ridgeway R-V school. All twelve grades.

Building was fairly new, built in 1950, I went to 1st grade in 1957. Small school with 15-20 kids in each grade.

Cleaned the erasers on a spinning wheel like a bench grinder. Oh the Horror!!! To let a kid run such a beast!!!!

Had a milk machine in the hall. .02 for a cup of white or chocolate milk. In waxed cardboard containers. Chest type cooler. Insert pennies, slide the carton to the gate area and lift it out.

The Cafeteria was in the gymnasium, separate building, bundle up in the Winter, tough it out in the rain, stay in single file and walk....

The community raised kids then. I was very Blessed. Month ago I went to my 3rd and 4th grade teacher's funeral. I loved that woman. She always treated us as her own.


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I did all 12 years in the same building as well. High school were grades 7-12 because they were high as in upstairs. Clearly we were in school before the obesity problem arrived.

 

[grnspot110]

I went through 1st - 12th at Gilman City, MO (about 20 miles from Richard's Ridgeway). Usually around 20 kids/grade, Mom was our 4th & 6th grade teacher, graduated in 1968. Building is still in use, cafeteria & gymnasium building added on while I was in grade school.

 

[Billrog]

Small 1 room school with 3 grades in 1 room when I went into grade 4 they had put on an addition during the summer and I spent 2 more yrs. there . The schools long gone, town grew and they bus the kids to a larger city.

 

[Fuddy1952]

Late 50s just grade school and high school. I grew up in the country but rode bus into town. In winter I remember some boys peeing on radiators, flushing cherry bombs down commodes. Still had the old desks with ink wells.
I got sent to principal's office, arguing with teacher about Columbus discovering America in 1492, saying Indians were already here!
Same thing happened to my wife...only they called her Dad who was a 6'6" Cherokee!
The second grade school I attended was in the county, had outhouses and the library up the hill in a barn! Amazing reading there with goats, chickens, cows, hogs walking around!
My teacher right out of college was a pedophile (seriously! But a pretty blond).
First year high school I goofed off...So Dad sent me to Hargrave Military Academy.
Lots of memories!