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Heat in the winter came from a single fireplace; the closest students nearly roasted while those at a distance had their noses turn blue and their ink congeal.
Big pot-bellied stoves later changed all that. Some can still be found in the middle of country classrooms.
But in the view of a teacher at a small one-room school in eastern Kentucky, it’s education and not central heating that counts. “We’ve made minets, carpenters, farmers, engineers, mechanics, doctors, and a lawyer—even a few professional fox hunters—right here in this room,’’ he said.
“It may seem like we don’t get as much schooling done, but when it comes to standardized tests the kids from here do as well as or better than the other children in the county.”
In winter, students’ skis on the porch and the teacher’s snowmobile in the yard signal “school in session’’ at a oneroom cabin in a remote part of Washington state. Some of the youngsters ski five miles to the school.
Such inconveniences matter little to the children and adults who show fierce devotion to the fastdiminishing one-room schools. As a Montana man summed it up: “It’s more leisurely here, and the kids can be part of nature instead of just traveling through it on a bus. Sure they don’t get to mingle with a lot of other children, but they can catch up on that later.”
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I would like to express my appreciation to everyone for' their cards, flowers and visits while I was a patient in Warren Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Pauline Alther, Sperryville.
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