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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are still some 138,500 one-room rural schools in the U. S., but full-dress modern education tends to forget about them. TIME herewith reports a normal day in such a school:
At morning recess (10:30), the children took their dinner pails out of closets, munched fruit and passed around popcorn They also put potatoes in the stove to cook for lunch. Johnny went out to the well to fetch water and Ralph to the shed for coal (Miss Campbell lets...
At lunchtime, pupils lined up at a basin took turns washing. Miss Campbell and the older boys & girls, helped the young children unwrap sandwiches, got the potatoes out of the stove. While the children ate, Ralph told them about an airplane trip he had taken a few days before. First...
Miss Campbell thinks that she has been in this school too long, would like to go on to a bigger one. Next year she plans to take Saturday courses at the University of Iowa. Her teaching salary now is $72.50 a month (she began at $40). Her restaurant job helps...
A big problem at Reed, a progressive college that goes in heavily for the arts and social studies, is to get enough football players for a team. Reed has a normal annual football budget of about $100, charges nothing for admission to games. This fall, having decided that Reed football...