One-room schoolhouse memories

One-room schoolhouses were the backbone of American education for more than 200 years. In these interviews, four Illinois State graduates who taught in those schoolhouses vividly recall the enormous workload and are equally quick to speak of the reward.
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[@Beth9228]

My grandparents might gone to one room class room when they were younger. I remembered seeing my grandfather’s year book when he was in high school. His high school was small. I remembered seeing it just after my grandmother’s funeral and seeing the school as a daycare back in 1994. The building outside was still the same as when it was in the yearbook. I lived in northern Door County,Wisconsin. Mostly the old school houses are a business or a home or been torn down. I remembered a couple of my friends went to 2 different schools in the county before being in a school for K-12 grade. I went to different schools when I was in preschool through high school. I was in preschool when I was 4 and 5 years old for having a little bit of a learning disability. I went to a normal school when I was in the 1st grade-8th grade in special education in those years. When I was in the first grade-4th grade it was in one building. 5th-6th grade another building. Even for junior high was in another building. When I was in high school it was in 3 different buildings because someone burned the older part of the school really badly just before Christmas break in 1984. I was bused to another school for 2 and 1/2 years. My senior year was back at a newer school in the same spot as the old school was. Only some parts of the school that weren’t damage by the fire are still there. That when I lived in Gurnee, Illinois with my parents and sister. It was so different for me. Now days there is 2 high schools where I went to high school.

[@brinmoody]

the first public school was established in 1635 and was held in the establisher's home, but eventually after a few years, they built a schoolhouse for the children. this was in Boston. the Puritans, Moravians, and Quakers all were very much for the education of their children and 90% of all towns established by the puritans, moravians, and quakers had a public school from the late 1600's and onward, so there were Schoolhouses in the 16 and 1700's.