Perkins One Room School house - July 1960

Perkins School was a one-room schoolhouse, kindergarten-8th grade, in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma. My Dad as well as my uncles and aunts attended this school in the 1920s and 1930s. We took these movies while on vacation in the summer of 1960. My sister is seen returning from the outhouse. When we were little we always kidder her about this..she was so embarrased. The school closed a few years before this movie was taken.

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[Commentarian1]

Hopefully what we are experiencing is America's "troubled youth" phase.. If this country's development can be compared to that of a child, at all. It has been a long time coming, though. These issues were around when I was a child. We had several teachers who told us how bad we were for eating butterscotch pudding with a straw (it was fun) or coloring outside of the lines, but I recall very few who actually brought us a spoon or showed us the right way to hold a crayon....

[Commentarian1]

No, I hear ya loud and clear :) One can hope this is just the zit-faced, awkward America.. When the one roomed school house came along most rural Americans wouldn't send their kids to it because they taught things like science and literature and they offered this knowledge to girls. As far as kidnapping goes, this country was peopled with children stolen from England and sold at a price to work American and Australian farms. It's where the phrase was coined.

[OmegaWolf747]

But has America grown in the right way? Really? We are now a nation where parents don't let their children outdoors to play for fear they will be kidnapped. We now have schools banning children from even running at recess due to fear of lawsuits. If this is the grown America, I'll take the child America any day.

[Commentarian1]

Think of it like this. When your children grow up do you force them to wear the same shoes they did when they were young? America has grown..

[camomule]

I spent my 1st and 2nd grades in a one room schoolhouse in Iowa, then it was consolidated with a district in a neighboring community and my brothers and I began riding a bus. It sucked. When my wife and I married, we decided we would home school our children. We still live in the country and our children, now grown with children of their own, also home school and live on acreages nearby. It's the little bit we, as one family could do, to hold on to simpler times and better values.

[OmegaWolf747]

An America that no longer exists.