My father and I both went to the same one room country grade school, although obviously quite a few years apart.
I can't really think of anything notable that happened while I was a student there, but my father told a story of when he went there.
The school have a coal/wood stove in one corner, and one winter my father mixed a handful of .22 short rifle shells in a wad of gum and sat at his desk chomping on it. As he expected, the teacher told him to throw his gum in the stove. He did. It blew the stove pipe down.
He also told of the first day of school one year when they had a new young man for a teacher. The first day of school, the kids ran rampant with no effort at discipline from the teacher. The kids thought they were going to have an easy and fun year.
The second morning, the teacher sat at his desk, whacked the desk several times with a heavy ruler, and said, "OK, yesterday you kids did things your way. For the rest of the school year, things are going to go MY way".
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