Shown here is a small group of school mates of 1959. Due to the necessity of making students exercise, the students all eventually had to take physical education classes when they entered the 6th grade. Up until that time the lower grade students had recess to help with their exercise program. Playing soccer, or chaise would get one winded but swing on the swings and jungle gym was a low grade of movement. Playing tag could get one into a good run as people would scatter all over the old school grounds.
One who went out for the sports like football, basketball and track did get more exercise than the ones who did not participate. At this time a majority of them lived on farms so they did get to do farm chores and work as farm kids in the summer.
Jumping back in time the students of this day,1920s, were lucky to have finished eighth grade at a country school. There was not time for physical education back then even though health would have been taught. The older kids of this family did go to a town school and graduate. The youngest boys in this photo never attended high school but were home trying to help save the farm from foreclosure. They didn't save the farm but all of that added to their character. Those two boys ended up being in WW II, traveling far away from their farm roots to Europe and Aleutian Islands.
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2 comments:
That's a small class size by modern standards but I bet everyone still remembers the names of their teacher and classmates. My dad also went to a small rural Maryland school and last month I got to meet for the first time one of his best friends from high school. They played on their school's baseball and basketball teams and maintained a close friendship into their late 80s, even though my dad in his army career traveled the world while his friend never left his farmer roots.
I never get tired of looking at old photos. Love Uncle Kenny's car.
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