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School was held in a settler's home, the general
store or village church before a schoolhouse was built.
The parents had to build the school, pay the
teacher and buy school materials.
The first schoolhouses were simple log cabins
with a big box stove in the middle. The students sat on two or three rows
of benches and worked at a big table. The floor was dirt and the windows
were covered with greased paper instead of glass. Rags were stuffed in the
cracks in the walls to keep out the cold.
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Rules for Teachers
1. Teachers each day will fill lamps, clean
chimneys.
2. Each teacher will bring a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day's
session.
3. Men teachers may take one evening each week for courting purposes or two
evenings a week if they go to church regularly.
4. After ten hours in school, the teacher may spend the remaining time reading
the Bible or other good books.
5. Women teachers who marry or engage in unseemly conduct will be dismissed.
6. Every teacher should lay aside from each pay a goodly sum of earnings for his
benefit during his declining years so that he will not become a burden on
society.
7. Any teacher who smokes, uses liquor in any form, frequents pool or public
halls, or gets shaves in a barber shop will give good reason to suspect his
worth, intention and honesty.
Any teacher who performs his labour faithfully
and without fault for five years will be given an increase of 25 cents per week
in his pay providing the Board of Education approves.
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