My mother graduated in 1935 and high school was only 10 years. Great-grandfather had to attend summer sessions to become a head of local school district and resigned 4 years latter because position became too political. Only a few years before I began teaching did the state allow pregnant women to teach.
Barbie
> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 20:40:59 +0000
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> It is really that the grades ran 1-7, and then they want to high school. Without kindergarten and no 8th grade one had 11 years of schooling before entering the real world, going to trade or business school or college.
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> Melissa
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> The only grades they had were 1-7??? Wow.
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> 1959
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> On 19-Jul-13 12:54, Melissa K. Davidson wrote:
> > Do you mean 1959 or 1859??
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> > Melissa
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> > The other interesting thing here is that Augusta County public schools
> > didn't
> start having 8th grades until ~1959. I remember my father, who was a school principal, saying that Augusta County was the last county in the state to institute an 8th grade. Just things that you remember.
> >
> > On 19-Jul-13 11:54, Westview wrote:
> >> Looking at the censuses you find that many people "only" had a 7th
> >> grade
> education. By today's standards that seems like not much, however, a 7th grade education then was not what it is today. A few years ago I read an article (don't remember where) that addressed the subject and included a test that was given back then in the 7th grade. It was incredibly difficult and included many questions that I think many college grads today would be hard-pressed to answer.
> I think most 7th grade graduates would have been perfectly equipped to teach at the very least the three R's and likely a lot more to boot.
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> >> kathy
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