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pahannock without massive resistance, according to Mrs. Butler. “It was a gradual thing,” she said, noting that she first taught for a year at Washington Elementary as the county closed its little two-room schools.
She worked with Miss Elsie Dodson, the two women dividing the curriculum offered the fourth graders. Mrs. Butler taught reading and language arts while Miss Dodson taught math and social studies. “We had forty kids in the class. Later, half of those kids sent me invitations to their graduation,” said Mrs. Butler, citing this as evidence of the early accommodation to integration.
When the new elementary school opened in 1968, black and white children attended class together while black and white teachers taught together - for the most part, without ugly incidents of racism, Mrs. Butler said. "Integration here was a smooth thing, something that had been going on all along.”
At the consolidated elementary school. Mrs. Butler taught first, second and third grade. “I liked third the best. That’s where I stopped. Children in third grade are just at the age where you can really work with them. They're not ypt at the point where they’re so grown up that you can’t tell them anything!” she added, laughing. “They understand what it is you want them to do, and most of the time, they do it.”
Although she insists that children are basically the same, Mrs. Butler has noticed changes in her young charges during her 34 years of teaching. “They’re more outspoken now. They talk more. And I think they know a lot more.” This broader range of knowledge comes from tele
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