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Now, my friend, I should like to dwell a while on a subject even nearer to you than that which we have spoken of. This is the topic of education. The Warrensville School district at one time included all of Warrensville Township, a territory five miles square extending north nearly to Cedar Road and west nearly to 13lst Street in Cleveland. There were nine elementary schools in existence from about 1885 to 1916. The schools ranged in location from Warrensville and Fairmont roads to Miles and Lee. Many people are still familiar with the old Emery Road school which was only recently removed to provide room for expansion. All the grade schools consisted of one room filled with long rows of hard benches. Grades one through eight were all taught by the same teacher in those old red-brick schoolhouses and a good swift smack across the knuckles served to tame the more unruly. The students were taught in rotation, that is, pupils in one grade would be seated on one bench and be taught by the single teacher at the same time. When they were finished the next bench of students would be called to the front. Subject matter taught included the three r's, and included geography, grammar, spelling and physical education. Your predecessors had various ways of getting to school over the narrow dirt roads which now are paved over in modern fashion. Warrensville Center road was then eight feet wide, of dirt, and became very muddy from spring rains. Passing persons would have to share the road by moving aside and occupying only one-half of the available space. Almost all walked over roads like this treading their way to the schools. Some fortunates rode on horses or rarely arrived by horse and buggy. If this was done, the horses had to be kept in the town hall shed and had to be fed at lunch. By the way, a normal school session started at nine o'clock in the morning and recesses at ten thirty, two forty-five. In addition, students were allotted one hour for lunch at noon. A pot-belly, woodburning stove in the center of the room usually did an efficient job of warming the one-room schoolhouses in winter. Upon graduating from grade school, Jim and Sally usually went to the high school which was located at Kinsman and Warrensville Center. More ' specifically, on the west side of Warrensville Road and the south of Kinsman. The high school was larger than any of the elementary schools for it was two stories high. Each story housed one long room filled with those same hard benches mentioned previously. The upper story was the high school proper while the lower floor was for grades one through eight. Here too there was one teacher for all grades. In 1912 the high school claimed the championship football team of Cuyahoga county with a final record of five wins and one loss. The team, under the coaching of Irwin Porter, played such teams as Fairmount and Orange. Names such as Shankland, Deeks, Eastwood and Ella- cott, appear on an old photograph of the team. The high school building was condemned sometime before 1920 and demolished shortly afterward. Students then began to attend Bedford High School until later transportation was furnished to Orange, where the majority of the students went in recent years. - The elementary schools were gradually absorbed and disappeared as f newer schools such as Clara Barton were built. And, so you see, your predecessors had less convenience and opportunity than you now have in your growing community. The remainder of this journey is able to be completed on your own. A few things you might look forward to are, a new high school, located on Northfield Road and new incoming industry. Well, my friend, I must now bid you adieu.
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