Figure 1.-- Here a German brother and sister in a rural village or off to school. Notice their book satchels. The snapshot is undated, but was probably taken about 1930. |
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Rather than small one-room schools like uin America, German children in rutal areas attended village schools. We have found numerous phoytographs of the children posing outside the schools. While hardly large, the were not tiny one-room schools with a handful of children as was the case in American rural schools. American children might have to walk several miles to get to school. This was not the case in Germany. Most rural children lived in villages and attnded the local village primary school.
Schools exisited in almot all villages so the children could walk to school. And the distances were relatively short. And the most the children migh have to walk across the village which normally cold be done in a few minutes. This not to say that there were no children living n farms. Children living on farms had more of a problem. Some had long walks. Ohers may have ridden ponnies to school. I'm not sure how common that was. The photographic record suggests that it was not very common. Almost all photographs of German school children we have fnd show them walking to school. And a German reader confirms that.
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