Schooling Paper
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How different is schooling today than it was thirty years ago? What was the gender and racial make up of schools then versus now? What has not changed that much? These are some of the questions that I asked my father. He was in junior high, which consisted of seventh, eighth, and ninth grade, from 1960-1963 and then in high school until 1966. We talked mainly about this time span because I thought it would be the most interesting and I thought we would both remember it pretty well.
Medina Junior High is a public school, serving approximately 400 kids when my father went. His graduating class, from high school, was 210. He remembers having between fifteen and twenty-five kids in his classes on average. School clothes meant something different back then...