Reply #8: From the first through the 7 grade

[madokie]

There was 5 girls and 2 boys in my class. We averaged around 48 to 52 students for the whole school, grades 1 thru 8. Three teachers, Man, wife and daughter. Wonderful people they were. My 4th and 5th grade teacher was the daughter, Mary Ruth was what she insisted we called her. She was a polio victim but she never let it get in her way. She played ball with us like the other kids, she was part of our student body in every way except that she was the teacher. We started doing basic algebra in the 4th grade and advanced with each new year. Needless to say all of us kids in my family and from our neighborhood are all mostly good at math.