By 1966, the one-room country school had become a thing of the past. School districts consolidated, pooling their resources to provide more teachers, broader curriculum, and opportunity for extracurricular activities. Equipped with little more than a blackboard and a few textbooks, teachers passed on to their pupils cultural values along with a sound knowledge of the three Rs.īy the turn of the century, the population began to shift to the cities and country schools began to lose students and tax support. She had to be a nurse, janitor, musician, philosopher, peacemaker, wrangler, fire stoker, baseball player, professor, and poet for less than $50 a month. The school teacher, sometimes slightly older than her pupils, was a renaissance individual. Features Commemorative issue Statue of Liberty Centennial Obverse Close view of the face and crown of the statue of Liberty. When they arrived on their first day of school they may have only known how to speak a foreign language but they soon learned how to speak, read, spell, and write English. 1986 S 1986 Statute of Liberty Ellis Island Silver Commemorative Dollar 1 Proof US Mint. They got to school on foot, on horseback, or in a wagon. Shop 1986 Uncirculated Statue of Liberty Commemorative Silver Dollar and more authentic and unique collectibles coins at Amazons. The children who attended ranged in age from five to 21 and endured dust storms, prairie fires, and cattle drives swirling past the school house in order to get an eighth grade education. They were called names like Prairie Flower, Buzzard Roost, and Good Intent. For a hundred years, white frame or native stone one-room schoolhouses dotted the section corners across Kansas.
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