Dave
2008-05-31 11:49:15
During the 1940′s, I attended a series of one room schools with three grades in each building. Moving into the new consolidated district – three rooms, nine grades, not to mention indoor plumbing, somewhere around 1947, was a monumental step up in the world.
In my opinion, there were two major advantages of those schools:
First, by the time a student was ready to move on to the next room or school, he or she had been exposed to every lesson in every grade three times.
Second, at any given time, a student in a higher grade could sit in on a class below his grade level to review an area of weakness or even take an advanced lesson if the subject was his or her strong suit.
