

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. On his new release, Spirit Junky, Walker comes dangerously close in places to committing those same crimes. The school teacher, sometimes slightly older than her pupils, was a renaissance individual.
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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. They got to school on foot, on horseback, or in a wagon. 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. Festa personalizada branca de neve, Joseph dempsie 2013, Brett bauchner, Fareeda adeeb. 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. Artist: Brett Walker Title: Spirit Junky (click on Artist's name above to return to artist's main page) Average Rating: 82 / 100 (2 ratings).
