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the school that the Kilbys attended before Belle Mead was built. Six-year-old Walter was outside while one of the older girls was sweeping the school. He threw some stones into the school and the exasperated teacher gave him a whipping.
Miss Pheobe Green of Amissville remembered one favorite trick that the boys at the old Amissville remembered one favorite trick that the boys at the old Amissville School pulled to drive the girls — and their teachers — to distruction. “They’d string a piece of cotton thread through the window and then later on, they’d go outside and rub the thread with alum. It made the most awful shrieking noise that you ever heard 1 But you know boys. Name any trick you want and they’ll do it.”
Pauline Bruce recalls her brother being expelled from the little school in Woodville. ‘‘It was a traumatic experience for the whole family. No one had ever heard of a student being expelled before.” His crime? Turning over the girls’ outhouse one night.
The young man and Miss Browning for his teacher. She was married to Sweets Browning, a short man, almost as wide as he was tall, and everybody’s friend, Pauline recalled. She remembers the teacher’s husband being particularly mad at her brother’s prank, viewing it as an insult to his wife. “I can remember Henry Wood telling my father ‘I don’t know why Sweets is so upset. Kids have been turning over bathrooms forever. He’s probably angry because we turned one over with him in it. It fell over on the door so Sweets couldn’t get out — he was too fat.’ ”
As a fourth grader teacher at the Washington School, Mrs. Bruce had Wallace Critzer in her class. “He was so adorable, a beautiful child, so well mannered. But he was constantly worrying me to death by eating candy in school. So I came up with what I tought was a unique approach to handling that discipline problem. When I caught him with it, I would take the candy away and divide it amongst the class. I caught him one day. I remember him being very open about having the candy. I handed it out to the other children.” And. then Pauline discovered why young Critzer hadn’t been more secretive. “He had put black pepper on it! That ended my taking Wallace’s candy.”
Miss Elsie Dodson, who taught at both the little country school houses and the new consolidated elementary school, remembers one of the more "serious” instances of disobedience she encountered at Forest Grove. “There was a crawl space underneath the old school and a bunch of boys decided to sneak down there and try a cigarette. Well, the smoke came up through the floor boards and we caught them. One of the boys had just joined the church the day before and he thought when we got through with him that he was bound for the bad place! He thought he had commited the cardinal sin. We sacred the life out of them.”
Miss Dodson had a reputation for being a stern
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