[Spam] Re: [Vision2020] Thank You

Tue Jan 31 13:27:57 PST 2006

I'm a bit younger, but went to a small country school in the 60's and 70's
in Arizona. There were about 80 of us in grades K-8 and most of the classes
were combined, except for K, 7 and 8.
It was literaly a red brick schoolhouse, with a bell tower and everyone
wanted to be the one to ring the bell. We would assemble in the schoolyard
each morning, face the flag and recite the pledge and sing America the
Beautiful.
The schoolyard didn't have any grass, just hard dirt and rocks, except for
sand under the swings and monkey bars and had a barbed wire fence on two
sides. Even the baseball field was dirt and I found an obsidian knife with
my leg while sliding into third base It cut my pant leg wide open, but just
nicked me. We were constantly bloody and bruised it seemed.
We had busses (yellow vans), but many of the kids walked (including me and
my brother if we missed the bus). In sixth grade one of my classmates
crawled about a half mile to school after being bitten by a rattlesnake
while he was walking alone. He spent a long time in the hospital and always
walked with a limp after he recovered.
Dangggggg, now I feel really really old.

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Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 12:16 PM
To: Richard Schmidt; Brent Bradberry
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Subject: [Spam] Re: [Vision2020] Thank You

Since we ar telling childhood school stories here is mine. I went to a one
room country schooll in the remote area of Owhyee County. There were
outhouses and a well of sorts. It was mainly a sping that water was dipped
out of.  My two brothers and I were half the school. all of the kids rode
horseback to school. One rode about 8 miles. We were only about 2 miles.
School started in the spring whenever the road opened up enough to get a
teacher in there. We were snowed in for about 4 months. There was a
teacherage where the teacher stayed. Due to the time element we went to
school for only 8 months.
We said the pledge by placing our hand over the heart. I have never heard of
it being done otherwise. I started to school in the spring of 1944.

Roger
-----Original message-----
From: "Richard Schmidt" 44schmidt at earthlink.net
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 11:50:46 -0800
To: "Brent Bradberry" bbradber at moscow.com
Subject: [Spam] Re: [Vision2020] Thank You

> We went to a "modern" 3 room school (K-7) in the little town of Snover,
MI.
> We had indoor plumbing which was quite rare for small schools in those
days.
> Most other country schools were of the one room variety with 2 outhouses
out
> back. Most had a well with a hand pump. We lived on a farm 3/4 mile south
> and walked to school. Dad & Mom didn't drive us because it was a short
walk
> and gas was rationed at that time. Some kids walked up to 1-3/4 miles to
> school uphill both ways through 6' snow drifts (the uphill both ways and
> through 6' snow drifts is a little deep)!! Country schools were located
> fairly close together so kids could walk. In Michigan, counties are broken
> up into townships and our township was 6 miles by 6 miles. We had 4 one
room
> country schools and our 3 room school in the township.
>
> I lived in Tennessee a few years ago and remember an old timer talking
about
> walking to school 4-5 miles barefoot as they couldn't afford shoes. They
did
> have shoes to wear in winter though. You knew it was the truth because
very
> often you would see pictures of the whole school of kids taken in front of
> the school and many did not have on shoes.
>
> Dick
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brent Bradberry" <bbradber at moscow.com>
> To: "Richard Schmidt" <44schmidt at earthlink.net>
> Cc: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>; "Moscow Vision 2020"
> <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 1:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Thank You
>
>
> > Richard - We are nearly contemporaries. I started school in Sept 1944
and
> > remember the daily  pledge of allegiance (and stumbling over the words).
> > I don't remember any  hand  gestures other than  the "hand over heart",
> > but I do remember some classmates who were Jehovah's Witnesses. I think
> > that neither I nor they knew why some of us said the pledge and others
> > didn't. For us little kids it was just one of the mysteries of life.
> >    I also remember clearly, several years later, when the words "under
> > God" were added. I don't recall any great hoohah about the addition, but
> > it took a long time to relearn the pledge.
> >
> > Richard Schmidt wrote:
> >
> >> Tom,
> >>  Thanks for passing this on to everyone. I'm an old guy and when I
> >> started school in September 1943 we sang "God Bless America" and then
> >> said the Pledge of Allegiance first thing every morning. Our teacher
> >> played the piano and also had a son fighting in Germany. At that time
> >> when the pledge was said we started with our hands at our sides and
then
> >> when "to the flag" was said we extended our right arm with palm up on
> >> about a 60 degree angle towards the flag. Our politicians who were just
> >> about as stupid then as they are now decided we shouldn't do that any
> >> more as they didn't want it to be confused with the way Hitler and the
> >> Germans saluted with their right arms extended up on about a 45 degree
> >> angle with the "palm down". We then started covering our heart with our
> >> hand when the pledge was said. This is the first instance of "political
> >> correctness" I can remember. I don't know if there are any other old
> >> timers out there who did it that way or not.
> >>  Dick Schmidt
> >
> >
> > --
> > Brent Bradberry, Ph. D.
> > Professor of Mathematics, emeritus
> > Lewis-Clark State College
> > Commander, U. S. Navy (retired)
> >
> > 1258 Wallen Road
> > Moscow, Idaho 83843-7445
> > (208) 882-2830
> >
> >
>
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