One Room School

   Here in Northern Minnesota, one room schools were built nearly anywhere that there were enough kids to make it worthwhile. Usually they expected the kids to be able to travel two miles each way. The classroom was divided front to back and left to right with the older kids in the back of the room. The younger kids were closest to the teacher for their protection from the bullies that plagued the class.
   The school marm was usually an unmarried spinster with little patience. Her rule was complete and corporal punishment was dealt out instantly. Many children went home with fresh black and blue marks.
   Winter was a challenge for the class. If you sat too close to the stove you roasted and if you were too far away, you froze. Also, the outhouses were unheated so that made for some very quick trips outside.
   I remember as a kid, folks telling about having to walk four miles to school each way, up hill in both directions, in a blizzard and had to live on lard sandwiches. Darned tough life.
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   Stop in once in a while. I'll try to write something new and informative about my book Brothers by Fire.
Good Reading,
Ron