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One-Room School House
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First of all, of course we had to walk to school, rain or shine. And it was just one, one big room, and then it had rows of desks. And we start over here: First, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth. Would carry your lunch. There was a well and they’d go out with a bucket and dip down in the well, and there was always just a dipper in the bucket. And one of my friends was tellin’ us the other day, she says, “You know, I started carrying my own water. I didn’t like that everybody have that dipper in that water.” And I said, “That’s one of the hazards, I guess.” And she would teach the first and second grade together, and then maybe the third and fourth, fifth and sixth, then seventh and eighth grade. But there might be only three or four children in each grade, so at the most, at the most I think there was, maybe, probably eighteen or nineteen.
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Marjorie Osborne Morgan, who grew up in Everett during the 1930s, describes the Everett schoolhouse and the numbers of students her teacher taught.
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