Answer:
Everyone in your family tree was young once, but childhood today is very different from what it was a century or more ago. Before the Victorian era, children as young as 6 or 8 years old might work in a mill or factory, they might run errands and make deliveries for a storekeeper, they may be apprenticed to a skilled craftsman or woman, or they could be hired out as a servant.
Lots of towns had several of these schoolhouses located in different parts of the town, and children would attend the school closest to where they lived. Many times this meant walking 2 or 3 miles to school, carrying a slate, a book or two, and a lunch pail, no school buses back then! In some places, the school was provided with firewood by the town, and in others, the children took turns bringing firewood to school to heat it during the winter months. In 1919 there were almost 200,000 of these one-room schools across the United States, but by 2005 there were fewer than 400 still being used as schools.
Children learned to read, write, and do math at home or in a simple one-room schoolhouse where there was one teacher for all the grades. Usually, the teacher was a single woman, and she could be as young as 14 or 15 years old. The teacher might be a woman from the community where she was teaching, but just as often she was from further away and she would live with a local family during the school year.
Something to think about:
How would you like to have your teacher live at your house? What would you do? Would you act differently? How would you feel?
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