Write Your Own Column: ; One-Room School Was the One for Me
Sunday Gazette-Mail › November 04, 2008
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After receiving my degree in education and my teaching certificate, I came home from college, eager to start work. I went to the McDowell County schools superintendent to apply for a position, asking for a school that really needed a teacher. I was hired right away to teach in a one-room school for a lumber camp on the Virginia border, 3 miles from the hard-surfaced road.
When I arrived at the school, I was instructed to go 1 mile farther up the hollow to the home of a family who promised room and board for the teacher.See the full content of this document
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Write Your Own Column: ; One-Room School Was the One for Me
My hostess was kind and pleasant, and my tidy room was lit by a kerosene lamp with a neatly trimmed wick and a sparkling clean glass globe. There was no indoor plumbing. My bathroom consisted of a pan and a bucket of warm water brought to me by one of the childr...
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