County Normal Schools News Today

Virtual schooling now and decades ago John Oncken I’ve always been proud to be a graduate of a one-room rural country school –  something that few people today know anything about because such schools came to an end some 50 years ago. Those of us who learned readin, ritin, and rithmetic from a teacher with two years of training at a “county normal” school were indeed fortunate, at least I’ve always felt. My class size was but three: Willard, Doris and me. However, we were in the sa...