I spent my first school years at Central School in Sackville, N.B. (They had a klaxon sounding period changes.) I could already read in Grade One so I was a bit advanced. One thing I remember is that in Grade Three we had a class devoted to space. In that grade a guy called Timmy Long had perfect attendance that year. (I think he's on the town council now.)
One of the things I remember is that when a kid threw up in class--I don't think I ever did--the janitor would come in and pour dustbane all over the mess. I also remember the Sports Day in Grade Three. They had seven events and in each one where you succeeded you'd get a ribbon in one of seven colours. I only earned three, while everyone else I could see got at least four! I cried.
I also remember some of the Lippincott Readers we used. There was one story about how the American constitution was devised (a nice Canadian subject!), and I managed to remember that the first new states were Vermont and Kentucky. And there was a story about the childhood of Swedish singer Jenny Lind. And one about a young refugee in Chicago who'd just lost his whole family in a big forest fire, and swiped a rich guy's coat but returned all the money inside. (He just wanted the coat.)
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