How a small town High School in the early 60s did it.

[Frustratedlady]

5. I went to a school K-12 and most of my class started kindergarten together.

We traveled the same road together through high school graduation and pretty much socialized as a group. There were 18 students.

If you had any talents in music, sports or art, you had to be involved. For instance, since I could sing, I soloed, was in duet, trio, quartets (mixed and female) and all the way up to choruses, both female and mixed. Same with band. I played the alto sax and was in jazz band, marching band and all the competitions as soloist and all the way up to band groups of all kinds. We also had to be involved with class plays, operettas and declamatory speech. We basically lived at school.

We put together and edited the class yearbooks, led cheers for sports and manned the snack booths at games. We put on style shoes to show off our outfits we made in sewing. The young men participated in FFA and 4-H to show off their accomplishments.

If there was a conflict between the school board and our curriculum or activities, we presented the problem at school board meetings and fought for approval of our wishes and ideas. We won a lot of them, too.

Needless to say, we were too busy to get in trouble. At our reunions, we discovered that no one had divorced, been in jail or spent time in prison. We were good employees and were able to keep our jobs thru to retirement. Big difference between then and now, sadly.