Friday, February 5, 2010

School

The last place we went to was the school house.
The teachers in those days were very strict. He showed us some of the outside games that the children used to play.
This was my favorite place even though he was so strict and cross.

It was nice that we had some younger children in our group (under 7) because we got to see how it worked. The teacher actually left the "infants" in the care of the oldest child.
Children 8 years and older got to use ink pens and do fancy writing. The ink pens were really difficult to use. Then we used a slate and a slate pen to do sums. At the end of the time the teacher hit a desk with his cane really loudly and we all got such a fright.

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