My mother taught in a one-room schoolhouse in Iowa, in the 1940s. Several years ago we drove to the spot where the schoolhouse was, to find it had been torn down.
Each morning she had to arrive early to the freezing building to light a coal stove for the children who would arrive later.
These schoolhouses were the centers of their communities.
I remember this film when I saw it in the 1950s, as a short accompanying the major feature. It stuck with me, not knowing at the time that my mother taught at one. And so after several google searches I found it, 60 years later, on YouTube.
It is sentimental, of course, but nothing wrong with that. And it contains the stereotype of the "old maid" schoolteacher. My mother wasn't an old maid, as the fact of my existence proves. There were few jobs that women could have all of their lives back then other than teaching school.
We have decided to show this to our grandchildren, to give them an idea of something that their great grandmother did. We think it will mean something to them.
Miss Turlock is presented as compassionate and wise. And a good teacher. It was a life to be proud of.
A sweet little film depicting a part of rural life in the first half of the Twentieth Century.
Each morning she had to arrive early to the freezing building to light a coal stove for the children who would arrive later.
These schoolhouses were the centers of their communities.
I remember this film when I saw it in the 1950s, as a short accompanying the major feature. It stuck with me, not knowing at the time that my mother taught at one. And so after several google searches I found it, 60 years later, on YouTube.
It is sentimental, of course, but nothing wrong with that. And it contains the stereotype of the "old maid" schoolteacher. My mother wasn't an old maid, as the fact of my existence proves. There were few jobs that women could have all of their lives back then other than teaching school.
We have decided to show this to our grandchildren, to give them an idea of something that their great grandmother did. We think it will mean something to them.
Miss Turlock is presented as compassionate and wise. And a good teacher. It was a life to be proud of.
A sweet little film depicting a part of rural life in the first half of the Twentieth Century.