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School Days - jim Young "It wasn't just school to me, it was the chapter I never wanted to end." - anon Some of you probably know by now that I grew up in the small communities of Stroud and Painswick. Not unlike some of the local rural schools in the Argyle areas today, the schools were small and each classroom would be filled with 2 or 3 grades. It wasn't uncommon that we would find ourselves in the same class as an older sibling or cousin. In the first grade, the school I attended in Stroud was a two storey building that accommodated Grades 1 to 8. There were 2 entrances for grades 3 to 8 whose classrooms were on the main and upper level. One entrance was for the boys and the other for the girls who all had to line up and wait to enter the building before literally marching in upon the teacher’s command. Stroud School on the corner of Highway 11 and the 10th line in Stroud. Built in 1923. The lineups for Grades one and two however, weren’t segregated by sex. But it...
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