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Little Red School House
The Kansas Heritage Server would like to thank Don Dale (jayhawk@adnc.com) for contributing this material.
Wife's grandmother, long since departed to the big school house in the sky was certified to teach Normal school back in the [19]20s. With your post I got to thinking about our tour America trip when the oldest was still in Jr Hi and we made the trek, thanks to friendly flyer miles, to the East coast (abt. 1981) to see historical sites and I recall the Little Red School House being an hour or so outside of Boston. We'd gone to see nature as Henry T. saw it, visited W. Pond, got lost in the woods and stopped at one or reportedly the oldest restaurant in CT to get our bearings and have lunch. Next door was the Little Red School House where "Mary had a Little Lamb" was written. Recollection is that it was there long before Kansas was settled. Of course in some of the Eastern/Southern states things didn't change much even after Kansas was admitted.....in 1966 with a degree from KU, the wife was the only one on a small middle school faculty in Virginia with a college degree.
The lack of education even among the teachers is one of the points, I would think, of revisiting the single room school era.
Saturday, October 13, 2001 8:11 PM
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