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Does anyone here on the forum teach at one, or have a child who goes to one? I'm suddenly finding myself fascinated by the idea. A couple of current co-workers of mine worked at one a few hours from here at different times. I love the stories.
I love where I teach now. But maybe 5 years from now? Hmmm...
Partly I think it's just the allure of a place so remote that a one room schoolhouse is necessary.
You could become Amish.... In Lancaster county, you can't drive more then a couple of miles without seeing a one room school house.
At my son's elementary school they study local history in third or fourth grade and a field trip they always take is to the one room school house less then two miles away. They spend the day at the school, including outdoor recess with old time games and if they need to use the bathroom, they use the outhouse. There are some local people that attended the school as youngsters and they are invited to come over and talk to the kids. When my son was in HS he decided to do a creek clean up in the back of the school for his Eagle project. Here's a picture of the place: Dillingersville School Main Page You can find these all over my part of PA.
Alaska comes to mind. It would have to be somewhere pretty remote (with few exceptions like the one above). Of course since those schools generally had one teacher for all subjects as well they are endangered unless "No Child Left Behind" is repealed or modified into pointlessness. I mean it's pointless now for all practical purposes, but it still imposes penalties for failure to comply with its pointlessness.
In the country's fifth larget school district, there is a one room school house! Last year, it had eight students. It is on the top of Mount Charleston. It has one teacher and an aide. The principal goes up the mountain one day a week. It's a neat school.
I am also a teacher that is fed up with all the state standards and testing that is forced on us each year. My father went to a one room school house and he graduated with a college degree. It would be so much fun to build your own one room school house as a charter or private school and teach the basics to a variety of age levels. You could dress like the teacher on "Little House on the Prairie" and have the old wooden desks and slates for students to write on. I think the best part would be how close you would become to your students teaching them for several years. Watch the "Little House on the Prairie" movies if you want to see good old fashion values with love of family, God, and country. We can at least dream of better days.
I have read that there are some one-room schools in Nebraska. I don't know what grade levels they encompass. I would imagine they still have to conform to the state standards.
I read the transcript. The school in MT sounds like the one in Wisconsin that my mother attended. Some things don't change much! I recall reading an article about some of these schools in Nebraska applying for charter school status so the state won't shut them down.
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Start your own schoolhouse!
