Rural School Print

Not so long ago, you found on each dirt back road, one of these small schools, combining one classroom and a teacher's bedroom+kitchen+basic amenities; for each teacher standing was simply a live-in reality, meaning she was there for all those small farmer children 24/7. Then, horse power period, survival meant just going back and forth between house/barn, stable, field, 3/4 of the year; The 4th season, meant winter full time, roads closed mostly, so too those schools, for snows and temperatures where ruling the landscape then; remember, no tv, in fact basically just what you had harvested, plus luxuries from town. Today, almost all the people would not even know the survivalistic reason these meant to all of the us then; seemingly, one needs to know less and less to survive, seemingly or really...'good grief' Charlie Brown!