fourg1b2006 Loc: Long Island New York

An oldie but goody...they don't make them like that anymore.

dragonfist Loc: Stafford, N.Y.

I sat at those type desks all through grade school. When I was in about 4th grade they replaced all the classroom lights from the hanging globe type to fluorescent lighting. We thought we were really up to date then.

SonyBug

Me too.

JCam Loc: MD Eastern Shore

I never was a student in a one room school, but my mother taught in one grades K-12 in Middleton, NJ during the mid 1930's. I recall her pointing the school our to me when I was a kid. Unfortunately it is no longer standing. It was during the Depression years, and she was paid $13.00/ week. I remember my father telling me he was paid $30.00/week as an electrical engineer in New York City at the time; he said they had more disposable income income then until after my brother graduated from college. That would be based on the inflated $$ of course.

I was in grades K-8 in NY during the 40's and remember those same desks and chairs, except that ours were only for one student, not two.

crafterwantabe Loc: Mn

I did go to school in a one room. The library was on the top floor. And the boiler in the basement.

SonyBug

For my inheritance from my parents, I requested only a single item from their lives that they particularly liked. So, from my father, I got a Horse Hitch Weight, and from my mother, I got a folding student desk chair from the '30s. I have the chair in my living room as I write this. It does not fit any decor, but I have been happily trudging around with it for over 40 years. It's way to small to sit on, as it is for children, and I am not sure it is one that I actually sat on, but it is a great memory of days gone by, not to mention of my departed mother too.

DonB Loc: Port Royal , Tn

Went to two, 2nd and 3rd grades, moved and came back for 5th and 6th grades. South part of Ind. Yes it was hard to keep an even temp, but some of us knew no different at home.

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

I attended a country school with multiple grades in one room. I loved it! One could listen to the older kids and learn a lot! And yes, we had desks like that plus a few other styles. That's a really nice, photo, by the way.

flathead27ford Loc: Colorado, North of Greeley

That is a beautiful picture. A wall hanger in my opinion. Cheers.

DavidJon Loc: Ada, Oklahoma

Not a one-room schoolhouse, but for part of the 3rd grade I lived with my grandmother in a very rural part of the state and I did attend a wood frame two-room schoolhouse. Grades one through four were in one room with grades five through eight in the other. In the winter each room was heated by a Franklin pot-belly stove. The older boys were charged with bringing coal in from the outside where there was a large coal bin. The restrooms were outside also - two concrete block outhouses, one for the boys and one for the girls. The high school, for grades nine through twelve was a block away. I don’t know how many rooms it had but it was was made of native stone and was definitely larger. I visited that little town earlier this year. The old wooden two-room schoolhouse is long gone along with the concrete block coal bin and outhouses. Although the lot is now vacant you can still see where the schoolhouse sat. The native stone high school building is still there although it is now a community center, the schools having been incorporated into another district back in the late sixties.

photophile Loc: Lakewood, Ohio, USA

Fine image. My brother in law went to one in Michigan, in or near Acadia.

Robert Bailey Loc: Canada

I would think that with all the grades in one room it would be advantageous to the younger children
overhearing what the older children were learning.
It may not have been so great, however, for the older children.

iDoc Loc: Knoxville,Tennessee

Nice shot. Creates a nostalgic mood.

JCam Loc: MD Eastern Shore

NikonBug, I've never heard of a "horse hitch weight"; is that used like a boat anchor???

SonyBug

Yes, it is a round piece of iron that has a leather handle, and a spot to hook the horse reins. They were used mostly for horse drawn wagons and buggys.