This video is a short history of one-room schoolhouses, which were common in the United States from the late 19th century to the early 20th century. The schools housed students from grades 1-8 and had only one teacher to handle all of the instruction. By the early 1970s, the one-room school had all but disappeared and was replaced by more consolidated schools that relied on motorized buses to transport students to school.
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