One-Room Schools of the Past
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- This video is about country schools. It is designed to prepare 4th graders to visit our schoolhouse for a two-hour living history program. It is geared to a 4th grade audience.
Music: "On Closing MY Eyes" by Steve Hogarty...Album: Highland Memories. So many beautiful songs on this album.
My mom was the second oldest of thirteen children. No kindergarden just 1st to 6th grade. She told me girls stayed home after 6th grade to help take care of the farm and family. READING , WRITING and ARITHMETIC was all a girl needed to know back then ( early 40's ) How Sad , luckily she made me finish High School . Thanks Mom ! Vickie
My great grandmother taught in a single room school house in Oklahoma. It was the Requah Indian School in Mayes County. Once she married she was no longer allowed to teach. I have a wonderful picture of her and the kids in front of the school building.
There were many one-room schools in Vermont up until the late 1960s and I attended a few of them.
I went to a one room school, our father & his siblings went to the same school when they were growing up. We had to walk, abt 4 miles, we'd cut though cow pastures & woods. We stood every morning & said the pledge of allegiance & had a prayer. We took our lunch, had a water pump outside & outhouses,we played games at recess. I have wonderful memories of growing up in those days.
I love to hear these stories!
Susan Fineman I live in a one room schoolhouse built in 1900 in northwest Michigan.
One of my finest outhouse restorations was one from an 1850 schoolhouse in CT. I was reminded how some things never change. After ripping off many layers of roofing, I discovered underlayment boards had carvings which indicated these roof boards had once been used as wall boards before they were repurposed. Yes young uns could be just as naughty as those of today as those carvings represented - ahem - both male and female body parts. I was surprised to find those boards but reminded me that whether separated by miles or centuries, we are still human and are only different in the ways we use to express the same things that have been expressed since ancient times. This is a fine video that I will recommend to my daughter a 3rd grade teacher in rural NH.
Great story!!! LOL! So consistent over centuries even... Thank you for your comments and sorry, this just showed up on my feed. I never know when someone writes.
Wonderful video, Susan! I find the old country schools so fascinating ❤
Thanks so much for your kind words!! Glad you enjoyed it! We have a lovely program for 4th graders in Nashua, NH. www.nashuaschoolhouse.com
What a delightful video. Thank you so much.
I lived this life. Best memories in Life. Better than Winning the Lottery.
My grandmother taught in the early 20’s, one room school, northeast Kansas, sabetha, the teachers were truly on their own out there on the prairie👍
My first four years of school were in a two room school house with six grades. And a one hour bus ride each way.
When I was a kid I used to have a vinyl record called, every day is fun in the Little red school house.
Thanks for posting! I'll be adding it to my homeschool curriculum Pioneer unit. :)
Thank you very much, Ashley! I'm glad you can use it!
@@oneroomschool1 I'm glad I found it! I went through so many videos trying to find something that explained it this well without being dry and dull. It was rough going! So this is just perfect!
Thanks God I am living in 2021.!
Great virtual learning video for our students to watch since they cannot do their 2nd grade field trip to Geer School in Plymouth, Michigan. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
We enjoyed this wonderful video, thanks!
Things were so simple back then even though you had to make everything that you needed!
My grandfather was the school master in a one - room school located in the Cape Verde Island/Brava. What a wonderful video Susan! Thank you so much. With best regards, Melissa
Thank you so much! I always appreciate when someone loves schoolhouses and their history!
My brother and I attended a one room school in East Braintree Vermont in 1970. The best time we ever had in school.
Wonderful experience, I'm sure!!!
i go to a school from 1918 and it has alot of rooms and all of the school is original
It's not only a thing of the past, I was born 2002 and our school also had one room for us (kids aged 6-10) and one room for kindergarten children. It's common here that primary and secondary school and kindergarten are all in one building.
We need to go back to these days. Teachers taught and children were taught respect and manners or else.
We don't need indoctrination camps today and we didn't need them back then so what would be the point.
If you want people to be respectful not forcing them into a concrete box 8+ hours a day with BULLIES who are DISRESPECTFUL by nature would be start.
@@Cacowninja right. Maybe if they weren't thugs expecting to get away with everything and were taught respect and disciplined as necessary, they wouldn't be locked up in a concrete box. They need to bring back discipline from the old days because people were actually raised to be RESPECTFUL and criminals were few. They've been doing it your way for years and crime is getting worse by the minute. Yeah sure. Quit locking them up where they belong.
Yeah, okay, so teaching a kid manners means beating their knuckles with a ruler until they bled. Real logical.
Yes, but school back then help kids get prepared for factory work and most people in the US today don’t work at factories. Our school methods is outdated.
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Well the kids back then get more then 15 minutes of play. Play is not a waste of time. Anyone who say that should be slap. Children learn best through playing and now preschool is turning into school.
Oh my goodness get ready you guys because this is my story
What a wonderful video so rich in information. Thank you Susan for all the photo research you had to do and your narration is excellent. We all should look back in history to see where we came from and appreciate what each generation contributed to our culture.
Thank you so much! I'm glad you can use this video.! I am a schoolmarm in an 1841 schoolhouse in NH and we use this video before the classes come for a visit.
Thanks very much for your kind words! I enjoy working in a country school museum in Nashua, NH...
Her narration is garbage. She has a voice that grates upon the senses
99-1...99 people see the benefit of this video for their schoolhouse visitors. Only one was hateful...OH!... that would be you! @@russellgrimes3491
I went to a one room schoolhouse from kindergarten to 6th grade when a second room was built on and I did 7th and 8th grade in the new room. Then I went to the high school in town.
Our oldest son went to a country school that was much bigger than my country school, from kindergarten to 8th grade and then high school in town. DS #2 went to that same country school from kindergarten to 5th grade when it was closed and then 6th grade to 12th grade at the school in town (a small school that has pre-school to 12th grade in adjoining buildings). Our youngest went to town school for 2 years of kindergarten to one month of 3rd grade.
So many wonderful experiences, I'll wager!
@@oneroomschool1 lots of them! My 8th grade class at country school was 3 of us. Freshman year at high school there were 200 kids in our class 🙃 my 8th grade was 1979-1980 school year.
Oldest 8th grade year was 2002-2003, middle 5th grade year was 2006-2007. Youngest started elementary school 2006-2007.
Our boys class experience was not quite that big, oldest had 35 in his high school class, up from 7, middle had 33 in his class, up from just him and our youngest sons class had 33, he would have been #34.
But the 2 younger boys got to do stuff at their country school with a big brother and also got to do stuff at the high school with the oldest.
I was sad and mad when our state finally got the country schools closed.
My daddy's (1919-1991) one room schoolhouse is now part of a museum.
I'd love to know where it is located. I'm on the board of directors for the Country School Association of America...we work to encourage the preservation of schoolhouses.
Susan Fineman : Shawnee Kansas, Greenwood School. It may have been annexed to become Lenexa, I'm unsure. Just off Lackman Rd. :D
In the 1850s children 6 to 16 had to stay in the same school room. At the back of the school had bigger seats for even bigger kids. Teenagers would have to teach younger kids to spell and count. There wasn't much back then but I know that you use these belts to hold your books. There's no smart boards just boards to write on. You will see a one room school at Old Bethpage Village Restoration.
Geer School is a type of one room School houses with an outhouse as the bathroom. Geer also was made of brick and the land was donated from William Geer, that’s how Geer got its name.Geer School is a old abandon school and closed back in the 1980s. Also Geer is almost A 100 years old. Geer School has desk that two people had to share. Geer also has a wooden stove that heated up the kids inside the School.And they did the pledge every start of the morning.
I wish I could visit and photograph them all!
I would love to see an explorer go and film it.
I am a high school teacher. I would have loved to have taught in this environment. But challenging, as you are teaching kids from ages ranging from 8 to 18. Wow, the teachers must have been amazing.
My county in Ohio has a Pioneer School were we act out life on the Western Reserve in 1840. I acted out the school ma'rm, and pretended that we were in the 1840's. I taught a lesson like they did back then, and I had to be really stern. It was a fantastic experience!
Thanks for the video. I just purchased a 1917 one room schoolhouse, that was a school until 1943, and I'm doing a sympathetic restoration. It will still be a house of sorts (loft style one bedroom) but very sympathetic inside to its school history as you enter the door. Outside, I want it to look exactly as it did before. I'm collecting history of the school and your video have me some inspiration to help me out. It's currently a disaster, but it should give me years to sort some things out.
I so infrequently check on my video, but I'm so glad you can make use of it! You're among wonderful company in this country! Check out www.countryschoolassociation.org and see what we do! You've given your little schoolhouse a second life and purpose!!
Amazing sharing !
I attended a one-room school nearby Molalla, Oregon, in Clackamas County. My book: The Eby School, by Margaret Anderson Branson, is available via the Molalla Area Historical Society (www.dibblehouse.org) This chronicle tells about the donors of the land, lists names of teachers, along with pictures with student names, and short essays. Eby School was one of about 175 country schools in Clackamas County during the 20th century. Consolidation during the 1950's lead to the closure of most of the community schools.
ENJOYED YOUR VIDEO...THANK YOU
I went to First and Second grade in a one room school in Nutter Fort, WVa in 1958-1960. The desks were all wood. Used to have a coal or wood heating stove in the middle of the room, but was converted to central gas heating 2 years before I got there. It was called Jacobs School. Was so long ago that when I Google it, it comes up with nothing. I have one picture of the school shortly before it was tore down. It is engraved in my mind, in great detail. The cloak room, and bathroom side by side in the back.
Such wonderful memories. The US had almost 220,000 one-room schools at one time in history...shows how we valued education from the start.
I want to say, well done. I'm a living historian in a schoolhouse, and I found this to be rather helpful. Alot of people don't know this, the first schoolhouse to be opened in America was actually more than a century before it was even America. It was in the 1630s in Massachusetts. Additionally, before the American Revolution, women were actually forbidden to set foot inside a schoolhouse, and it wasn't until after the revolution that women began teaching. We're Federal Period (at the very very end of the period), one of the earliest times a woman could teach in a school room, though even then, it was still rare until the Civil War when there was a lack of men around to teach. I'm still an apprentice and am learning to teach still and will hopefully take over for the mistress I work under when she retires. We actually have our main school room in a barn, which, in our era, wasn't uncommon. I do some teaching in proper schoolhouses too. Again, thank you for this video, it was very very helpful to me!
So nice to hear that you enjoyed it. You've given me some interesting history as well!
Thanks so much! I enjoyed your informational as well!
its like 1660
I Loved this..during Laura Ingalls time the school work was Not easy, those kids Loved to learn and Most were pretty smart..
Thank you so much for writing! I am so glad you liked my little video! Check out our organization that helps to preserve ORS... www.countryschoolassociation.org
We attended a one room school house. They still exist today. It’s sad that most of them are closed. Their was about 15 kids that attended the school that we went too. In 2016 the one room school house that we attended closed with 4 kids attending. We where glad to have that experience.
There are still 5 countries schools existing today in Huron County.
I hope one-room schools will always be needed. Seems they're more needed in rural parts of the country, but nowadays kids get school-bused, or driven, to central or regional schools, at leased in the higher grades. In Alaska the state serves very remote families living off the grid; bush pilots fly in with books and instructions for home schooling and self-study. I thought this was a charming video of yesteryear schools in America.
Great video! I went to school my first year in a two room school. The first through the forth grades were in one room and fifth through seventh in the other. A pot belly stove was used for heat. I have a couple photos of each of theses groups standing on the steps of the school. The photos were taken in 1959. The school was known as the Gravel Lick School. It was refereed to in latter years as the The Old Gravel Lick School. It and a couple other schools were replaced by the Clinch River School. I can identify all but a couple of the people in the two photos. I have two other photos, one is of the class of the Hamlin School it was taken in about 1929. My mother is the only person I know in that photo. The Hamlin School was also one of the schools replaced by the Clinch River School. I also have a photo of the class at the Rasnake School. It was taken in about 1900 to 1905. My Father In-law identified every person in the photo “about 30 people” including the teacher. His father, aunts and uncles were all in this photo as well as both of my wife’s grandparents on her mom’s side of the family, which was the Rasnake family. Thanks for the memories.
Hi there - this is fascinating information. Thank you for sharing. Would you be able to share some of the photos from the 1950s? Or direct me to where I can find them? Would love to take a look. Thank you!
@@sheyna420 I tried to seed protos but got a email delivery failure message
@@lesterwatson8519 thank you for your reply! Would you be comfortable sending them to my personal email? I'm doing some research and the photos would be so helpful. If not, I totally understand!
@@sheyna420 No problem but I don't have your address..
Can anyone help me out ?? Could you please tell me in brief about the video ? Like around in 300 words ?? It will be really helpful ,
Love the video
Thank you.
I went on a field trip today to a one room school
Tell me what it was like!
Laura B z me too in benleigh
I learned this at my field trip (history park)
I have a "Living History Park" near where I live. It is a imitation of old times.
This is amazingly great. I am restoring a Little Red Schoolhouse 1845 - in Boxford, Ma.
I would love to see any curriculum that they used back then!!!!
Hi Laurie: I responded to someone in Boxford a few months ago who wanted to come and visit my schoolhouse in Nashua, but I never heard back. I sent all my information for contact too.
Glad you enjoyed the video!!
I love this
thats cool 😎
They still have a One Room Schoolhouse in Ravendale, Ca. Grades 1 Through 6 and my brothers and sister attended it from 1977 to 1981 I was already in High School and had gotten my GED so I did not attend, but I wish I had.
Such wonderful information! Thank you so much!
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent, I love it. Educational and baking me reminiscent of The Dead Kennedy's!
The outhouse with the hole in the plank to do pooping and peeing is not much different from the latrines I had to use in the field at Ft Sam Houston, TX, in the '90s. But the outhouse that's used in the school house looks more sanitary, it even has a dispenser for toilet paper. The one at Ft Sam, only had a roll of paper that was loosely propped up on a small wooden shelf, flies were everywhere, and the smell in the latrine was horrible. No place to wash your hands.
Thank you for serving our country. I hope they've updated this for our troops! LOL!
Thank you for a wonderful video.
Wow this is how my great grandmas schools were like she died at age 100 gee
It's January 9, 2020. Anyone here after watching the Little Rascals short film trilogy of Teacher's Pet, School's Out, Love Business? I'm here after falling in love w/ Miss Crabtree and wanting to learn more about the one-room schoolhouse.
I grew up on the Little Rascals! Miss Crabtree knew everything!!
This is a fantastic video Susan! I teach a Pioneer Unit in Social Studies in my Gr. 2 classroom. I very much appreciate this information and will use it as one of my resources from now on!
Thank you so much!!! I am so glad viewers can use this! I made it to precede a visit by students in Nashua, NH who come to our little red brick schoolhouse that dates back to 1841. We have a two-hour living history program there.
I just found your review! Thanks so much for your kind words and I'm glad you can use this information. I am a docent in a one-room school museum in Nashua, NH...i love
my work.
@@oneroomschool1 I live in a school in north west Michigan built in 1864, it has been a ton of work for me over the years but the reward's for my labor has made it worth it with former student's mostly in their 80's stop and visit.
@@kennethbredow3098 I always enjoy hearing from people who love schoolhouses in this country! How fortunate that you have given your school a second life as a home. Please visit www.cuntryschoolassociation.org to see what we do!
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The house I live in belonged to my wifes great grandfather and it used to have a one roomed school on the property. Sadly her Uncle tore it down in the 1980s before we bought the house but the school that replaced it in 1880s is still on a lot up the road on my wifes aunts old property. They added on to it but when it sold the new owner tore down the add ons but the school is still there.
When Mrs. Fineman recorded this, this is when Mother Theresa died.
Very Nice documentary voice
Thanks!
A Much Better Time..
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they still have those kinds of schools in California in the 1990s. country schools in Imperial valley CA.
They do
Cool
I saw Tucker Mountain's Little School House in NH. :-)
When respect & manners were mandatory and enforced, life was vastly better...
now look at the mess the world is in!!!
0:21 boys up in the tree
for the photo time...they had some freedom!
Adults beating up kids was cowardly then and it is cowardly now.
Bernard Popp I agree partly with what you’re saying but the way those teachers treated little children back in those days was just awful.
There needs to be a middle ground between having respect for your elders and appreciating the education many dont have the privilege to receive and treating little children like absolute crap and hitting them.
If we could all just show some respect and appreciation for the education system, but also teach little ones in a way that wont damage them and leave them permanently scarred, that would be great.
I wish things could just be that simple but apparently its not. Things are better now but we still have a long way to go.
Now its like the roles have reversed and the children are the ones in control and think they can do whatever they want and the adults are too afraid to speak up.
@@NoIdea68 bring back the paddle! Those kids were NOT abused, they were DISCIPLINED. They all turned out to be respectful, smart and ambitious. It's ridiculous the way adults are pushed around by kids today! God forbid they have to defend themselves from this trash, it could ruin their career for life. DISGUSTING what kids are allowed to get away with today. Back in those days crime wasn't even close to what it is today. A 16yo kid in my city attempted to carjack a retired policeman, shot and killed him and received a sentence of 4 years in juvenile detention. He's a hero to kids just like him because he shot and killed a policeman. And it's just getting worse and worse.
Carrie Rogers Thats why I said there needs to be a middle ground. I agree with what you’re saying and yes it drives me nuts how the modern day teenager acts and something must be done about it. I say there needs to be a law imposed: If you are over a certain age and all you do is mess about in school then you should be given three warnings. Strike three and you get kicked out permanently
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Where can I research my schools history in Andrew County Mo. It was built in 1860. I searched digital newspapers with very little info. Thanks
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My dad once told me "Don't go to those schools, boy!". So, when I was nine, I set the school on fire.
@Alexander Torrent yea I was crazy back then
The children can learn
Past and present
I went to a one room school house for 1st grade, my older sister until third grade. 1950's. Coal stove, outside for lunch under the willow tree with a packed brown bag lunch. Yes, there were teachers that smacked kids hands with rulers, I had one. I still remember her name, Mrs. Miller. Very long walk to the bus stop, about half a mile.
You know it would help if you put dates on these
Ido learned in a one just like that
I spent 2 months going to a historically accurate schoolhouse with my friends for a project
A lot of schools were "red" in color for the same reason a lot of barns were red: because the railway companies would carry their own red paint to paint the cars, signs and cabooses of the trains on the rails across North America. The trains would carry so much of this "Red Lead" (lead oxide) paint that it was not only cheap, but readily available all along the railways (other paints were not so cheap or available).
In the 1800s, "white paint" was mostly lime, chalk and water (whitewash), that would last a year at best on exterior surfaces. The other alternative was white paint made from white lead (lead carbonate) and boiled linseed oil, which was more expensive and less available than the railroad's red lead paint.
Thank you for this information! Always learning!
What happens if they didn't hear the bell
About names--my dad went to a school called "White Jail." I have a couple of his report cards with that name on them. That's from NE Ohio.
I enjoy these stories...memories of the actual attendees! Love the name!!
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What is the name of the tune used as background music? Very lovely. Thank you!
Sorry for the late response! I just found your question! "On Closing My Eyes" by Steve Hogarty in the album Highland Memories...a wonderful compilation!!! Thank you for watching!
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not bad
There was a one room school down the street from me in NY. It has been razed now. It sat for 50 years after it closed. I regret not doing more to save it.
I want to see it
I want to go there. That's cool
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I see the one-room school house with my real eye it so small
if someone would roast someone back then everybody would be like huh
Alot of them look like little sheds
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With as large and heavily funded as our public schools are becoming, we’re still missing many of the key attributes from these primitive schools. Educational expectations have naturally grown while the need for moral development has been left aside. Requiring to address your teacher as sir and mam, why is this not just as practical of a requirement today. Why are teachers being fought by their students. Why do students not see the benefit of their education? We’ve gone astray
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Boys and girls separated? Yah sure?
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