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Reference number: P20-288
Place : Inkerman Ferry
Date : c 1930
This schoolhouse in Inkerman Ferry is typical of the little country schools of old times. Those schools were usually one-room buildings heated by a wood stove in the middle of the room. There was one teacher, male or female, and a few pupils in different grades. The pupils were taught the three Rs and had to pursue secondary studies in another school. Few students got that far, for most of them left school before Grade 8. Those schools were funded by the county governments, meaning that the wealthiest counties had better funded schools, and vice versa. They vanished in the 1960s with education reform under the Equal Opportunity Program put in place by the Liberal government of Louis Robichaud..
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