A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....2

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Murph,
It seems that you are seeing in many of these photos scenes that remind you of earlier days and things that you did then just as they do me.
Well I hope that makes sense.

Of course it makes sense. Who we are now is the result of connections to places and the people of those places that filled and built our lives in the past . We cannot go to the past to build. Building now is for our future, one second from now, and for the days and years we may be granted ahead..

Incredibly , just as I am typing this reply on my iPhone , a school bus has pulled-up at the curb across the street from me. Wow. Talk about building for the future and cherishing the past !!!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

.........a school bus has pulled-up at the curb across the street from me.

Actually going to school where you are?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

.........a school bus has pulled-up at the curb across the street from me.

Actually going to school where you are?

I think so. One nearby city definitely is, having started yesterday . One of its principals called me yesterday to talk about its progress. And this is the second day I've noticed this school bus going down my street.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

.........a school bus has pulled-up at the curb across the street from me.

Actually going to school where you are?

I think so. One nearby city definitely is, having started yesterday . One of its principals called me yesterday to talk about its progress. And this is the second day I've noticed this school bus going down my street.

None are here..........

[rogruth]

Mt daughter is still teaching and some schools are open here. Some are being "distance schooled" at home and some in the classroom.
My daughter is doing both but not at the same time.
School buses are running with a maximum of 16 students on a 64 passenger bus. Some area schools but in different counties are
doing all distance and others in school. Parents are rather vocal about ehat they want and that seems to be the most important
factor. Having the childs teacher baby sit so they can go to work is more important than health.
By the way, schools in this area usually start the first or second week of August. I have been in Georgia more than half of my life
now. 45 years, and I still think school should start after Labor Day.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Having the childs teacher baby sit so they can go to work is more important than health.

Sad.

..........and I still think school should start after Labor Day.

Lot of tradition and then more recently overt support for vacation businesses for 1 bif final weekend of business.......money talks, education, not so much.....

Oh well, another post card photo tomorrow.

[rogruth]

The reason given for starting school early was to finish the semester and testing before Christmas break and having to "reteach so much after the break". Maybe reteaching after the break would have helped with some scores.

Back in the dark ages when I was in school, 1940-1952 1-12 and 1952-1956 college, there are two things prevalent today that I do not remember
happening during my schooling, teaching to pass selected tests and teachers espousing political beliefs. Doing either of those things could get
a teacher a severe reprimand. Pushing of political beliefs became more open in the late 1960s in high schools after teachers who had gone to
college in the 1960s started to work. I first saw "teaching the test" when I came to Georgia in 1975. It may have been happening in Ohio and
Kentucky while I was teaching there but I never informed teachers that it must be done.heard or read directives or attended meetings that

[healey36]

All this talk of school has me looking back through a bunch of saved photos. Here's one of parochial school kids heading home after school, Pittsburgh, July, 1941:



Brings back memories of my earliest days in Catholic school. Let the beatings begin, lol.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

.....teachers espousing political beliefs.

We had 1 on high school - professed member of the Birch Society -- was totally bug-nuts gun carrying crazy and the school district was terrified of him....

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[rogruth]

I wonder if any of the five lady chaperons are waiting their turn?
Not sure but that may be the earliest photo of a swimming pool that i have seen.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I wonder if any of the five lady chaperons are waiting their turn?
Not sure but that may be the earliest photo of a swimming pool that i have seen.

Green Cove Springs near the St. Johns River in FL ~1870

[HONDO74]

Looks like a swimming pool provided by mother nature,

[healey36]

That was my thought as well. I imagined the teacher saying, "Class dismissed...be careful walking home, as it's been raining really hard all day."

[Rufus T. Firefly]

That was my thought as well. I imagined the teacher saying, "Class dismissed...be careful walking home, as it's been raining really hard all day."

.....and the gators are hungry!