And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The teacher is Bog's younger sister. The reason the teach is sitting there is to keep her eye on the boy in front of her. He's only pretending to be asleep. He's covertly playing with his pet fly. He's a handful. Don't ask how I know.
they used to have a milk for students program that had a small carton of milk per student for $1.20 a week (waived if the family was poor), applied after recess, and then a nap. (I heard one teacher, as we quieted down, say "Thank God!!")
I am in the first wave of "Baby Boomers" (1946). I was ten years old and in the 4th grade in 1956. We had no naptime by then. This photo was taken around that time. It also depends on where the school was located. If it was Calahan, Colorado, the classes were around 10 kids per class.
We all had a little cubby hole with our own blanky and pillow, everyone take our nap on the floor, never forget we where having our nap when the teacher told us JFK was shot dead.
Need to bring that back to the work day…
ReplyDeleteThe teacher is Bog's younger sister. The reason the teach is sitting there is to keep her eye on the boy in front of her. He's only pretending to be asleep. He's covertly playing with his pet fly. He's a handful.
ReplyDeleteDon't ask how I know.
ReplyDeletethey used to have a milk for students program that had a small carton of milk per student for $1.20 a week (waived if the family was poor), applied after recess, and then a nap. (I heard one teacher, as we quieted down, say "Thank God!!")
Way back in nursery school, we had mats, like today's yoga mats, to sleep on the floor.
ReplyDeleteFrom about '55 through '65 every class that I was in had at least 40-45 students. This has to be pre boom.
ReplyDeleteI am in the first wave of "Baby Boomers" (1946). I was ten years old and in the 4th grade in 1956. We had no naptime by then. This photo was taken around that time. It also depends on where the school was located. If it was Calahan, Colorado, the classes were around 10 kids per class.
DeleteI remember napping in both 1st and 2nd grade.
ReplyDeleteWe had mats that we would roll out and lay on the floor and nap.
We all had a little cubby hole with our own blanky and pillow, everyone take our nap on the floor, never forget we where having our nap when the teacher told us JFK was shot dead.
ReplyDeleteNap times were actually to give the teacher a break. I remember being told "Heads down" and wondering if we were being punished for something.
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