When I was in grade school, there were 18 of us altogether.
- Not in 1 class, but counting every student between 1st grade in addition to 6th grade, there were only 18 of us, this was in the 1970s, by the way, so you might guess the days of the “one-room schoolhouse” were a thing of the past, but you’d be wrong about that.
There was 1 teacher to handle all of the youngsters in all of the grades… His name was Miss Jones, in addition to I still remember his fondly to this day, then miss Jones was the 1 who encouraged me to read in addition to write, to follow our dreams, in addition to eventually, he encouraged me to get out of rural IL for a better life! Don’t get me wrong, I love IL, in addition to it is filled with some of the nicest people you will ever meet, then but I did not want to live on a remote IL farm, I wanted more out of life. Miss Jones was the 1 who showed me there were numerous weird sides to IL. I had only experienced the rural side in addition to the farming community, but IL had sizable cities, great arts, in addition to culture if I could just find it! Once I made it to Champaign, IL for our first school classes, I also discovered the wide variety of cannabis that the Prairie State has to offer… You want to talk about an eye opening experience! I guess Miss Jones is proud of me for going to an IL state school, despite the fact that he legitimately wouldn’t approve of all the cannabis I smoke.