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Kodak Moment
In the spirit of Silly Tuesday...
The first authorized teacher was paid $70 a month while her male counterparts received $80 per month. Wait... what?? So teachers were underpaid, AND women made less back then too!? Some things never change!
The modest school played a significant role in the Fruita community. Built in 1896, this one room schoolhouse was Fruita’s only public structure. It served as a church meeting house, since Fruita’s Mormon settlers never had their own church building. It also was the community center. The desks could be moved to make room for dances, meetings, church gatherings, and other social events.
@sherri: That is true. I have an old journal of my mother's in which she writes that she and my dad had to keep their engagement secret until the end of the school year when she was an 18 year old teacher or she would have lost her job.
