Figure 1.--This is a photograph of our class at the private German speaking School in Montana. As you can see we were a very smll group. The lady of course is our teacher. The photograph was taken in 1945
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Figure 1.--This is a photograph of our class at the private German speaking School in Montana. As you can see we were a very smll group. The lady of course is our teacher. The photograph was taken in 1945 |
Actually our village had two primary schools which was unusual for a small village. Switzerland of course is a multi-lingual country. The convention established for schools was that in small villages, instruction would be in the language of the majority language group. Towns and cities would have schools in both Frech and German. The village school was supervised by catholic nuns and the priest and was only in session for 6 months, as during the summer all the kids had to help with farming. The instruction was in French. Therfore my parents organized a German speaking school without the catholic component. It was attended by the chuldren of the sanitorium employees as well as the children of some patients. At that time antibiotics did not yet exist and many patients spent months or years at the sanatorium. Therefore many
families followed them and lived near by. Our primary school was very small and was a one-room school. We had kids in every grade from 1st to 6th grade. In school we had to wear the obligatory smock.
Actually our village had two primary schools which was unusual for a small village. Switzerland of course is a multi-lingual country. The convention established for schools was that in small villages, instruction would be in the language of the majority language group. Towns and cities would have schools in both Frech and German.
The village school was supervised by catholic nuns and the priest and was only in session for 6 months, as during the summer all the kids had to help with farming. The instruction was in French. I don't know much about the village school. There was no contact what-so-ever between the two schools.
Therfore my parents organized a German speaking school without the catholic component. It was attended by the children of the sanitorium employees as well as the children of some patients. At that time antibiotics did not yet exist and many patients spent months or years at the sanatorium. Therefore many
families followed them and lived near by. Our primary school was very small and was a one-room school. The school was working under the regulations and curiculum of the Dept. of Education from the Canton Bern, which was the nearest German speaking Canton to ours and who had a well developed educational system. Our teachers were certified teachers from that Canton. As it was a one-room school, we only had one teacher at the time. Most teachers came for one year and therefore we got new teachers every
year. We had kids in every grade from 1st to 6th grade. In school we had to wear the obligatory smock.
Voute, Tom. E-mail message, May 13-23, 2006.
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