[niteowl77]

You may want to throw in the in the 1940s ALL Big Cities and ALL small towns School Disticts conspired with the Iowa Legislature to KILL the One-Room Country School System.

Right after graduating from ISTC (which is now UNI), my mother was one of the last - of three or four, if I recall correctly - one-room schoolteachers in the state of Iowa... it would have been some time in the 1950s, but prior to 1955.

Both of my parents were public school teachers back in the days when local farmers and townspeople ran the boards and children were educated rather than indoctrinated; neither one wants to see any great-grandchildren in a public school system.

Mr. niteowl77

[US Navy Vet]

My mother also was a 90 day ISTC “wonder” one room coutry school teacher in 2 Coal Mining towns in C. Iowa(Logansport and Ridgeport). I think that if you follow the money(Property Taxes) we may find just why the One Room Coutry School System was killed off.