Pappy
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I love these old photos and I wonder when I see these, I wonder if she was target practicing or going after grandpa. She was a feisty one.
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My grandma back in the late teens.
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Pappy
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That’s the same quarry I spent many hours playing there. My friend and I camped out there a couple times. It was about a half mile from our house.
Pappy
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And when she wasn’t blasting away, she taught school in a one room schoolhouse. She is on the far right.
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Yeah she is!
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Just out of curiosity, what teacher training did your grandmother receive before teaching school?
I had an elderly friend back in the 1980's who graduated from high school at 17 in 1916, went to Normal School (teacher training) for a few months and then taught school in a one-room schoolhouse for two years in the wilds of Kentucky. She would have taught longer there but she was caught "stepping out" with a divorced man and they were both run out of town. The hussy!
I know for a long time in a lot of places just having graduated from high school qualified a person to teach school.
The book "Christy" by Catherine Marshall is great reading about teaching in a rural one-room schoolhouse back in those days.
I had an elderly friend back in the 1980's who graduated from high school at 17 in 1916, went to Normal School (teacher training) for a few months and then taught school in a one-room schoolhouse for two years in the wilds of Kentucky. She would have taught longer there but she was caught "stepping out" with a divorced man and they were both run out of town. The hussy!
I know for a long time in a lot of places just having graduated from high school qualified a person to teach school.
The book "Christy" by Catherine Marshall is great reading about teaching in a rural one-room schoolhouse back in those days.
Pappy
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Then she went on to marry this handsome fellow, my grandpa.
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In some areas, today, the Amish still use one room schoolhouses. It's usually a 17+ year old girl, who runs the school, and does all the teaching. She didn't recieve any additional training.
I like Grammie's pics. A delicate wall flower doesn't seem to fit her, does it?
I like Grammie's pics. A delicate wall flower doesn't seem to fit her, does it?
Pappy
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I don’t know if she had any training to become a teacher. She never mentioned it. Here’s another photo after the school was closed.
Pappy
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And after marrying my grandpa, they had 3 children. L-R. My grandpa, Donald, grandma, my mon and Leonard. RIP all.
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I love the pictures, Pappy....(When I get home I will bring out all my Mom and Dad's pictures....I need to cry again....
bet she didn't have any problems with rowdy students.
Teachers in rural South from inception to 1940's, teachers were anybody they could get in the extreme rural areas.
It is difficult to grasp just how rural these communities in the
South were.
They had to be literate.
Schools in this era until (circa) 1890-1930's were hit and miss
My mother was a graduate in the 1920's (completed 8th grade) in rural Alabama. She taught farm children.
She was literate: grammar- no time to teach such niceties.
Reading, writing and 'ciphering,' was enough-remembering
duties at home far outweighed 'schooling.'
Salary was also a hit and miss endeavor.
Teachers in rural South from inception to 1940's, teachers were anybody they could get in the extreme rural areas.
It is difficult to grasp just how rural these communities in the
South were.
They had to be literate.
Schools in this era until (circa) 1890-1930's were hit and miss
My mother was a graduate in the 1920's (completed 8th grade) in rural Alabama. She taught farm children.
She was literate: grammar- no time to teach such niceties.
Reading, writing and 'ciphering,' was enough-remembering
duties at home far outweighed 'schooling.'
Salary was also a hit and miss endeavor.