![]() ![]() Students could take this at the end of 7th grade, and then again at the end of 8th grade. Here is the exam given to students to pass 8th grade in 1895. SEQUOYAH ORPHANS TRAINING SCHOOL-TAHLEQUAH, OKLAHOMA 1920īOYS AT SCHOOL -NEWCASTLE, OKLAHOMA 1914 I imagine that was why she took such pleasure in buying Big Chief tablets and crayons for me. With the Depression on the way, and the Dust Bowl days looming, she spoke of the poverty of everyone she knew. ![]() She attended a one-room school house in a very small southeastern Oklahoma town. She was born in 1922, and started school when she was only 5. My mom spoke of her school days just shortly after Indian Territory became the state of Oklahoma. After shopping for school supplies for only two children, I wondered how families with several kids could afford for them to even go to school-and that wasn’t counting back-to-school clothing. ![]() By the time my kids started school in the 90’s-all that had changed. A “Big Chief” tablet, one of those HUGE pencils, paste in a jar (with a brush built into the lid!), a box of crayons, and a pair of “school scissors” and a wooden ruler. Growing up in the 60’s, our school supply lists were not long at all in elementary school. ![]() My husband laughs at me, but I just keep on picking up post-it notes and pencils, thinking “I will need these at some point…” Even now, when I walk into WalMart or Target and the school supplies are displayed (in JULY!) I have to stop and look at them. ![]()
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