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Back to the One Room Schoolhouse
By Kathy Ewws
Teaching art was my first job and for several years I switched and taught special Education at the Junior High level. After I retired from that job voluntarily several years ago, I began to teach as a substitute teacher. Thus I taught in many school systems and many ages of kids. Then for the past two years I went back to teaching art on a part time basis in a very small school system. Unfortunately and sadly, this tiny little school system had to consolidate this year due to lack of budget. Teaching in that small school system was an eye opener. It took me back to the years when I first taught Special education, in a type of setup which is no longer seen...the self contained with integration classroom. It was before the era of "departmentalization", when the students that were in special ed were enrolled in ONE class with ONE teacher all day long, and went out only to classes within the general school that the special ed teacher felt they could handle. This tiny little school that I taught in part time was in a way very similar, with the difference being that the kids were not "special" kids. But in that special environment...those kids were the smartest and the brightest and the most well behaved of any kids I have ever taught! Why?? Most likely because they had a perfectly marvelous student to teacher ratio....one teacher to 8, 10, or maybe 12 students at the most. And the whole school was like a one room schoolhouse, with sixth graders helping first graders and everyone playing together on the playground without bullying, cliques, and fighting. I realize that in today's technical age, it is expensive to provide equipment and books and so on for schools. But you know what?? That little school, without as much technology as some of the others, but with LOTS of student teacher interaction had more going for it than the bigger schools. I vote for going back to the one room schoolhouse, where kids were taught by teachers, individually and with love, and gangs were non existent. |
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