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...Teacher Janice Herbranson, 51, has served breakfast to her three pupils. After morning lessons, she will cook lunch. At day's end, if the parents are away, she may take one of her charges home with her to spend the night. At the Lennep school near Montana's Crazy Mountains, Second-Grader Lee Cavender, 7, barges in to say that his sisters, twins who constitute the entire seventh grade, will be absent today. They turned 13 over the weekend, old enough for deer-hunting licenses, and, of course, their father has taken them shooting. With or without the twins...
...public one roomers in the U.S. shriveled from 24,000 to 798. Reason: a push for consolidated districts in which pupils would be bused to big central schools with presumably better learning opportunities. Recently, however, parents and educators have been working to save the one-room public school. Montana has opened three new ones this year, and nationally the total has risen to about 835--for some sound reasons. (Private one roomers, mainly sectarian, now total an estimated...
...surprise of many educators, the youngsters tend to score handsomely when they move on to high school. "Once there was a stigma attached to going to a one-room school, like you were a hick or something," says Ralph Kroon, field director of the Montana Rural Education Center at Western Montana College. "Now it's a back-to-basics phenomenon." Nowhere is the phenomenon more vital than in Nebraska, which has 300 public one-room schools, more than any other state, and where parents have collected 85,000 signatures for a 1986 referendum on stopping further consolidation...
Nevertheless, most pupils and their parents would not trade the experience for anything. A particularly staunch supporter is Montana's Governor Ted Schwinden, himself a one-room alumnus. "I have nothing but good memories of it," he says. Another is Salund's Herbranson, who sounds like anything but today's unappreciated, burned-out teacher, despite a 1983 salary of $6,300, which the National Education Association certified as the nation's lowest (her wages have now soared to $6,800). "The feeling of being needed," she says, "that's something worthwhile. Many of my former students are married...
...used them mainly to screen job applicants. Now Congress, many of whose members view the tests as a violation of civil rights, is moving to curtail them. Last week, by 236 to 173, the House voted to prevent the general use of the tests by U.S. businesses. Polygraphs, said Montana Democrat Patrick Williams, "in effect require testifying against oneself." The ban would exempt employers such as nursing homes and companies working for U.S. intelligence agencies...