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    Building Bonds

    Aug 02, 2022 5 minutes
    By Larry Scheckel

    You could not get a better education than the one-room country school. It’s a model for a superior education. That’s my claim and I’m sticking to it!

    From 1948 to 1956, I attended Oak Grove School, 2 miles northwest of the town of Seneca, in the heart of Crawford County, in the hill country of southwestern Wisconsin. I was one of 28 kids in the classroom, Grades one through eight, with one teacher, no indoor plumbing, no telephone, and not another single building in sight. Portraits of Washington and Lincoln hung on one wall, in addition to a map case. On the opposite wall there was a bulletin board that held displays of exemplary student work and lessons about conservation and nature that came from Ranger Mac, a well-known voice on Wisconsin radio. The school building was not much bigger

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