Golden Country School District No. 13 (Adams County), Golden, IL

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Golden Country School District No. 13 (Adams County)

P.O. Box 219

Golden, IL 62339

Golden (population 629) is located in western Illinois in the northeast corner of Adams County.  IL Route 94 is the main drag through town and connects it to U.S. Route 24 four miles to the south. Golden is located about 20 miles northeast of Quincy.  The town was platted in 1855 and originally called LaBuda.  Shortly afterward the name was changed to Keokuk Junction.  Residents soon found it a problem when several items of mail were forwarded to Keokuk, Iowa.  The town name was then changed to Golden.  The school system was set into motion shortly after the town’s establishment.  The high school was established in the late 1800s. It was a strong school with great community backing. The school lasted for approximately six decades. Sometime between 1951 and 1955 the Camp Point Central School District was established.  Golden is now a part of that school district; however, it is not clear as to the exact year they joined forces.  The last year mentioned for Golden High School is in boys basketball for the 1950-51 season. The first year listed for any sport Camp Point Central High is boys baseball in 1955.  The Golden 3-4 Central Middle School is built on the grounds where the original public school building, built in 1896 and demolished in 1956, once stood. Central 3-4 Middle School serves 134 students in grades 3-4.

Mudsock School, Newville, IN

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Mudsock School

Co. Rd. 75 and Co. Rd. 60

Newville, Indiana

The Mudsock School or McGinnis School is located on the southeast corner of Co. Rd. 75 and Co. Rd. 60, Newville Township, DeKalb County, Indiana.  Newville Township is one of fifteen townships in DeKalb County. As of the 2010 census, its population was 558 and it contained 196 housing units.  Newville Township has one precinct.  The voting place is Mud Sock School House.

Wayne Rooney homeschooling his four sons

Wayne Rooney homeschooling his four sons
by GMX Sports news today & current events (April 28, 2020)

Wayne Rooney has reportedly been homeschooling his children during the coronavirus pandemic

The former Manchester United and England footballer – who is now a player-coach at Championship club Derby County – has been doing his bit to help his four sons with their work as schools across the UK are closed due to the ongoing health crisis.

A source told The Sun newspaper: “Like most footballers, Wayne has had a lot of time on his hands and been at home a lot.

“As well as keeping fit and in shape, he’s been rolling up his sleeves and doing the home-schooling.

“He’s particularly good at maths and science, so he looks after that. He is really throwing himself into it.”

The 34-year-old star – who has kids Kai, 10, Klay, six, Kit, four, and Cass, two, with wife Coleen – had already been helping his kids with their homework, but it’s said he’s stepped up during such a tough time.

Read more:

https://www.gmx.com/sport/9880696-wayne-rooney-homeschooling-sons.html#.1559516-stage-hero1-1

La Prairie Country School District No. 13 (Adams County), LaPrairie, IL

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La Prairie Country School District No. 13 (Adams County)

County Road N 2700th

LaPrairie, Illinois

La Prairie is an incorporated town in the northeastern portion of Adams County, western Illinois. The population was 47 at the 2010 census.  It is part of the Quincy, IL, Micropolitan Statistical Area. La Prairie is situated between the County Roads of E 2600th St. and E 2650th St. at the County Road of N 2700th Ave. and appears to be about 3 blocks from north to south and 5 blocks from east to west.  It is about 20 miles northeast of Quincy and 24 miles southwest of Macomb.    La Prairie was established in 1855 as a stop along a railroad line. It was initially named Gibbstown before the name was changed to La Prairie in 1863. La Prairie is aptly named as it appears to sit quietly in the middle of the prairie along the Burlington Northern Railroad line.  The town probably grew quickly in its initial years. It is likely that a school was set in place by the late 1800s as well.  High School curriculum was probably offered in the 1920s.  LaPrairie High School had a 4-year curriculum through 1944. The high school was closed after the 1943-44 school year with students being bussed to nearby Golden High School to complete their education. The Golden High School closed in the early 1950s, possibly 1955, with students from Golden and LaPrairie joining the newly formed Camp Point Central School District.

Frontier Village church/school, Jamestown, ND

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Frontier Village church/school

404 Louis L’Amour Lane

Jamestown, ND

Frontier Village in Jamestown, ND, consists of a block worth of old-timey buildings done up to resemble a historic row. They are filled with antiques and artifacts of frontier life to showcase how prairie pioneers lived and bring the world of the prairie pioneers to life. While the town itself is a made up fantasy land, the pioneer town recreation features real historic buildings that were moved there from the frontier villages of different parts of the state. The Frontier Village site features displays showcasing antiques, gift shops featuring North Dakota products and handmade goods from local artisans, stagecoach and pony rides, and Wild West Shoot-Outs.  The Louis L’Amour writer’s shack is dedicated to this beloved western author.  The Northern Pacific Railroad Depot was the first railroad depot in Jamestown (1880). It was in use until 1965, when it was moved to the Frontier Village.  The Pioneer church at Frontier Village was originally built as a school in 1881 at Eldridge, ND.  In 1920, it was purchased by the Eldridge Lutheran Church.  Then it was moved to the village in 1968.

Frontier Village school, Jamestown, ND

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Frontier Village school

404 Louis L’Amour Lane

Jamestown, ND

Frontier Village in Jamestown, North Dakota, is an old time pioneer town with historic buildings.  Most of the buildings are set up like little museums in themselves. Visitors can enter the saloon and take in the bar and piano setup. They can visit the jail and pretend to be wanted dead or alive. They can go to the dentist’s office and witness a pretty disturbing dentist scene that might make them never want to go to the dentist again.  They can enter the school and church to see the interiors as they would have been way back when.  The pioneer school at Frontier Village was originally the Sinclair School No. 3 and was placed in the village as a monument in memory of North Dakota teachers.  Other buildings in this pioneer town have been repurposed to serve a modern day function, such as gift shops featuring local wares and souvenirs, antique shops, and bathrooms.  The exhibit also plays host to a variety activities, such as pony rides, stagecoach rides, and wild west shootouts to keep kids entertained.

Paloma Country School District No. 99, Paloma, IL

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Paloma Country School District No. 99

Rt. 24

Paloma, Illinois

Paloma, Illinois is an unincorporated community in Honey Creek Township, Adams County, Illinois. Its main auxiliary route is U.S. Route 24 and is within two miles of Coatsburg, another rural community. During the early 1900s the village was famous for its pickle production and was often nicknamed “Pickleville” because of the vast pickle farms.  Local producers shipped pickles to Quincy off a rail platform about a mile west of the present Paloma. Paloma was founded in 1839 when Daniel Godding settled here and the cemetery started. Gooding, an early settler, offered to build the railroad a depot and platform if it would move the Pickleville platform to the town he platted on his land. The railroad agreed, Gooding built the depot and a railroad conductor’s wife was responsible for changing the name of the community, deciding Pickleville wasn’t very fitting. She named it after a small tribe of Indians, the Paloma, a term which is also Spanish for dove.

The community thrived thanks to the railroad. At one point, the town had two gas stations, a general store, bank, lumberyard, an elevator, a bulk plant, a school, and busy Saturday nights when farmers came into town to trade for their groceries. Euterpe Hall, named for a Greek muse, was the site of plays and shows in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, eventually moving to nearby Fowler and then closing. U.S. Route 24 came through in 1923-24, signaling the rise of the importance of the automobile and the decline of Paloma.  The Elevator located in the center of the town once served the many pickles produced and still serves the home of local crops. Today even though pickles are no longer grown, the Elevator remains a county landmark.  This country schoolhouse, Country School District No. 99, in the village of Paloma is located in Honeycreek Township, Adams County, on Rt. 24 between Fowler and Coatsburg.

Harvard Law Professor Attacks Homeschoolers, as She Envisions Them

Harvard Law Professor Attacks Homeschoolers, as She Envisions Them
by Michael Farris (Apr. 22, 2020)

Should homeschooling be banned? Harvard Magazine and one of Harvard’s law professors, Elizabeth Bartholet, think so. This is despite the fact that Harvard University admits an appreciable number of homeschooled students to both its undergraduate and graduate programs every year.

Readers are urged to conclude that there is an educational crisis at hand. Perhaps there is a crisis, but not in the homeschooling community but rather at Harvard.

Let’s deal briefly with the elementary matter of spelling and proofreading. Harvard originally spelled “arithmetic” incorrectly in its illustration of a home-prison depicting an unhappy homeschooled child. It was rendered “arithmatic.” Ahem.

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https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelfarris/2020/04/22/harvard-law-professor-attacks-homeschoolers-as-she-envisions-them-n2567379?fbclid=IwAR18-7lXL3281kaEAuN-IzZqMPB-D6EnZaRh8mbFZveyUVOQt1_nkNKgV-Y

Rector Schoolhouse Roper Mtn. Science Center, Greenville, SC

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Rector Schoolhouse

Roper Mtn. Science Center

402 Roper Mountain Road

Greenville, SC 29615

The Rector Schoolhouse in Greenville County, South Carolina, was a one-room school in operation from 1898 until 1913. The school originally stood at the intersection of Roper Mountain Road and Highway 14, and was built by local farmers so that their children would have access to schooling. Students ranged from first grade to eighth grade.  They  studied the 3 Rs here when they could be spared from work on the farm.This one-room schoolhouse was used to educate local children until 1913. The school is now part of the Roper Mtn. Science Center.  Sometimes a real live school marm appears here again and puts visitors through their lessons once more.

Johns Island (Walnut) Schoolhouse Museum, Johns Island, SC

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Johns Island (Walnut) Schoolhouse Museum

4455 Betsy Kerrison Pkwy.

Johns Island, SC 29455

The Walnut Schoolhouse was originally built in 1868 for the freed slaves after the Civil War, one of approximately a dozen school houses on Johns Island, SC, dedicated to public education.  By 1880 there were as many as 11 one-room school houses on Johns Island, but Walnut was the beginning of public education for the Island.  Eventually the schoolhouses were divided between black and white students.   The Walnut Hill Schoolhouse was used by white students living at the south west end of Johns Island.   During that time it was located on what is now Betsey Kerrison Parkway near Pumpkin Hill Road close to the Walnut Hill Plantation.  It remained a school until the 1930s when it became a courthouse. In 1991 the schoolhouse was about to be demolished as part of a road widening project.

That is when Betty Stringfellow, local historian and author of the book A Place Called St. Johns, decided to rescue the building.  The schoolhouse had sentimental value, as Stringfellow’s mother had attended school there. So, in a matter of days she obtained the rights to the condemned building from the state, moved the school to her own property, restored it, and opened it as the Johns Island Museum. For 10 years, it served as a museum, but closed in 2011. The Johns Island Conservancy moved it again, refurbished the schoolhouse and the museum exhibits, and reopened it in November 2012.   The Museum is now open on Thursdays and Saturdays and by appointment at any time, especially for school groups.

The Museum includes exhibits on Indian shell rings, pre-Colonial artifacts, plantation life, Civil War history, African-American life and Gullah culture, schoolhouses in the Lowcountry, Johns Island historic maps and other memorabilia. There are school desks as well as artifacts dating back thousands of years, like pottery and arrowheads.  Knowledgeable local guides are available to answer questions and relate local stories of life on the Sea Islands of the Carolina Lowcountry.  This more than century-old Lowcountry schoolhouse is once again open and full of local historical treasures to teach its neighbors.