One Room School Education

Film clips from an 8 mm. movie camera. Most shots are from the 1930's and 1940's and feature rural and farm life.

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

This is wonderful. Many of those one room school houses are still around, although most are empty. I hope they all get preserved. George Vreeland Hill

[@bodryn]

This brings back nice memories. We went to a one room school in the country - the total school population went from 23 down to 7 when I was in third grade. No worries about bullies - the older kids were pretty good at keeping things fair. When I got to town school in fourth grade, we were half a year ahead of the town school kids in our learning!

[@1kissbee]

Wow, as a history lover I love seeing old things like this! It is so cool! I love how the teacher is just watching the boys wrestle. Nowadays you can't even play red rover or cross my ship without a teacher interfering because a kid may get touched the wrong way.

[@Slim5819]

That happened to me too. I always hated to get on the see-saw with some big kid because just about every time they'd try to do something like that.

[@Slim5819]

Thanks for your comment. Yes, there are a lot of similarities.

[@userunavailable3095]

Boy, does this remind me of A Christmas Story.

[@Slim5819]

I can agree with that!

[@murblemtn]

Nowadays one of the boys parents would be at the school the next day threatening to beat up the teacher or to sue the school.

[@OmegaWolf747]

Those two boys wrestling would be suspended and referred for counseling nowadays. You never see see-saws anymore!