School in the early 1900s was strict, with physical punishment common. Wealthy children attended private academies while most went to one-room public schools where multiple grades were taught together. Classes had strict routines like marching in lines. Subjects were similar to today but classrooms had fixed desks and separation of boys and girls, often in separate playgrounds as well. Physical education included sports like tennis, hockey, and cricket played outside at recess.
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In the early 1900s, the wealthy
children attended private
academies.
Most subjects were the same, but the teachers
were harder on the children in public schools.
If the kids did something wrong, the teachers
would hit them with canes.
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Schools were houses with a few rooms in them set aside for
classrooms. They were small, with only about three or four
pupils in each grade. One teacher taught several grades in just
one room. In the private schools, girls and boys were not
together. They went to separate academies. Some of the
subjects the girls learned were reading, spelling, history,
arithmetic, geography or handwriting. Sometimes they
learned manners and dancing, French, drawing and how to
walk and act like a young lady.
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Children in 1940s had the same subjects as we have
now but the classrooms looked different. Each student
sat separately, and the desks and chairs were fastened
to the floor in straight rows. The teachers were more
strict and the classrooms more orderly. At recess time
children would march out of the classrooms in
organized lines. Most of the time boys and girls played
on separate playgrounds. Children would get to school
by riding a bicycle or walking. Sometimes, children
lived so close to the school that they could go home
for lunch and return to school.
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40. School Jobs
• At Linton School in Manawatu they had
milk monitors. They world bring milk
botties in cratesto class rooms for morning
refreshments.
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