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On December 18, 1925, Esther M. Spooner, the teacher of the Green School, with her pupils and their parents celebrated Christmas at the schoolhouse on East Main Street and the occassion was recorded for posterity in the pages of the Middleboro Gazette. Friday afternoon, under the joint auspices of the teacher, scholars and the P. T. A., a very pleasant time was enjoyed by the Green school and

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In 1914, Charles Austin Wood penned a recollection of his school days in Middleborough in the late 1840s and early 1850s. Born on July 18, 1841, the son of Eliab Wood, Jr., and Mary C. (Freeman) Wood of Wood Street, Charles A. Wood attended school at the Green in the building which preceded the current Green School house. Bearing testament to the truism concerning childhood schooldays that "these

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On Tuesday, July 20, the Middleborough Historical Commission will meet with the Green School Preservation Committee to discuss the color of the Green School. Following mitigation work to remove contaminated soil surrounding the building last fall and winter, the schoolhouse which is located in the historic Green section of Middleborough was structurally stabilized and the exterior primed. The

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An informal poll conducted these past several weeks on Green School History has indicated that a majority of visitors to the site prefer the Green School to remain green. While the present green color scheme of the building is not likely to have been the building's original color, most of those favoring that shade regard the color as a traditional one for the building given that few Middleborough

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Thank you to the people who have already voted regarding the future color of the Green School. Because this topic remains of interest, the voting period for the informal poll to the left has been extended another month. Currently, the front-runner is the clear sentimental favorite - green.

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The photograph depicts the condition of the Green School prior to preservation work in late 2009 and early 2010.

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Much work has been accomplished this winter in repairing the Green School and securing it to the weather. More recently, the long familiar green color of its clapboarded exterior has disappeared beneath a coat of gray primer, preparatory to painting. One of the next decisions regarding the building will have to do with the color which the building's exterior should be painted. This decision is

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Through the courtesy of Lincoln Andrews, I have been able to add a news archive feature in the left side column containing links to past news items featuring the Green School and its preservation. Simply click on the link to read what the local press has to say about the project.

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.Efforts are under way to preserve the historic Green School on East Main Street in Middleborough. Recently threatened with demolition and situated upon soil contaminated by a leaky oil tank, the 1871 schoolhouse has been structurally stabilized and the contaminated soil removed. Spearheading the effort is the Green School Preservation Group headed by former Selectman Lincoln Andrews.While the

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.Part of the goal of this website is to collect copies of items related to the Green School in order to create an archive of material related to the school and its history which can be posted on-line for everyone to enjoy. Copies or scans of photographs of the school and the children who attended it, class pictures, report cards, school work, and any other item with a Green School connection is

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. The Green School, like others, was marked by the American flag which floated from the building. However, a flag may not have been an original feature of the Green School. The Fifth Street School in New Bedford is believed to have been the first school in America to fly the flag daily beginning May 11, 1861, and only gradually thereafter did other schools begin to adopt the practice. In the late

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. Source: Annual Report of the Officers of Middleborough. 1885. (Middleborough, MA: Town of Middleborough, 1886).

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.The costs for instruction (teacher's salaries), fuel and care of the Green School are listed below. The figures for 1895 and subsequent years are for instruction only. Figures were not published following 1926.1871-72 $241.451872-73 $269.251873-74 $250.201874-75 $286.711875-76 $284.751876-77 $301.871877 $304.501878 $263.621879 $261.001880 $307.881881 $302.681882 $284.121883 $293.691884

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.Teachers in Middleborough were required to be present at least fifteen minutes prior to the commencement of school, both morning and afternoon. In the late 1800s, this requirement was shortened to ten minutes. Lessons for the day would have been prepared the previous afternoon or evening. Children arrived either on foot or, if lucky, by means of the farm wagon destined for town if “the trip

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Below are enrollment figures for the Green School taken from the Annual Town Reports. Various methods of reporting were used over the years, including total enrollment, average mebership and whole number of students attending, but the figures represented here provide a good picture of the number of students educated in the building.1877 spring term 261877 fall term 311878

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.Source: Annual Report of the School Committee (Middleborough, MA: Middleborough School Committee, February 1, 1877), p. 6.

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.Like all Middleborough school districts, District 3 (the Green) covered a wide area stretching west to the Wading Place at East Main Street and the Nemasket River, north to Thompson, Fuller and Plympton Streets, east along Plymouth Street to and including Short Street, and south along Wood Street nearly to Sachem Street. For the education of all children residing in this area, the Green School

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.The historic Green School was built in 1871 to replace an earlier structure which stood on the same site and which by that time had fallen into great disrepair. The 1870 School Committee report for Middleborough noted that "the schoolhouses in No. 3 [the Green] and 14 [Fall Brook] are poor and inconvenient, and in our opinion unsuitable for school purposes. If the town does not deem it advisable

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.There is little record regarding the original furnishings of the Green School, though it was undoubtedly furnished like a typical schoolhouse. The blackboard was the focal point of the Green school room and likely was situated on the rear wall opposite the entrances. In nearly constant use throughout the day, the blackboard required frequent repair and repainting. In 1877, the Green School’s

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..Like other local schools, the Green was heated by means of a wood stove which likely stood in the center of the room and had a pipe traversing the ceiling to the rear chimney. To fuel the stove, the town paid various dealers to provide wood. During the school’s first year of operation, Arad Bryant was paid $7.50 to supply it with wood, and an additional $1.75 was spent for sawing. In 1872-73,

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.Following construction of the Green School in 1871, the schoolhouse appears to have been well cared for. In 1887, it was valued at $1,000, the same sum as the schools at Waterville, South Middleborough, Fall Brook, Wappanucket and Purchade. Only the central schools – the high school, School Street and Union Street – were valued higher.Periodic repairs were made to the building including those in

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.An important feature of the Green School, as with all schoolhouses was the surrounding schoolyard which provided not only a recreational space for children, but also a location for sanitary facilities and a woodhouse.While a fence was originally built in 1871 when the school was built, in 1878, either a new fence or an addition to the existing fence was erected about the Green School yard with J

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.The work of the Green School was carried out nearly exclusively by women. While male teachers had been active during the mid-19th century particularly during the winter, largely in order to maintain discipline as this was the term typically attended by older farm boys, by the time the new Green school opened in 1872, the role of teacher largely had been assumed by women. Partially this was a

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..As more was demanded of teachers, pay and the cost of instruction, became an issue. The Middleborough School Committee acknowledged that Middleborough teachers were paid below the state average and argued for increased appropriations in order to secure qualified teachers. (The salary for teachers, including Lura Sawin at the Green School, teaching all three terms in 1876-77 was $280. Later, in

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.Dissatisfaction with salary fueled teacher turnover which remained high during the late nineteenth century, and the resulting lack of continuity in rural one-room schools created challenges for students, a circumstance acknowledge by Superintendent Fitts in 1886. “With so many changes it is very difficult to show good results, and yet with the smallness of the pay, and the lonesomeness of some

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.Teachers at the Green School were monitored, and were under the watchful eye of the local School Committee which visited frequently. During 1877-78, Miss Kingman at the Green School had 8 visits from the School Committee to observe her teaching manner. Little constructive help was provided where teachers were found lacking.While Superintendent of Schools Edward P. Fitts began teacher meetings in

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.1871-72 Caroline WestonLucia Drake 1872-73 Annie A. LovellHelen Ward1873-74 Annie A. LovellSarah A. GibbsMary E. Evans 1874-75 Lucia A. ThompsonMary S. PerkinsMary E. Evans 1875-76 Mary E. EvansLura Sawin 1876-77 Lura Sawin 1877Lura Sawin L. W. Kingman1878Mary F. Hagen1879Mary F. Hagen1879Lucia Keith1879Mary F. Hagen 1880Mary F. Hagen1881 Mary F. HagenEdith F. Holbrook1882Edith F. HolbrookAbbie

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.In his report for 1891, Middleborough Superintendent of Schools Willard T. Leonard laid out his vision of the role of the local schoolhouse. “The great object of the schools is to prepare the children for future usefulness. While not wholly ignoring the physical and the moral, their main work is a careful and patient training of the mind. All their energies are bent in this direction …." Towards

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At the time the Green School was built, reading was a focus of the Middleborough School Committee which believed that it could not be considered enough. “Good reading, and spelling, cover a multitude of deficiencies, in school-days and after life.” The committee was clearly disheartened at the level of reading which it found in the schools in the early 1870s.The reading in all our schools … is

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.The method of teaching grammar in Middleborough’s schools, and the inordinate amount of time devoted to the subject, came in for sharp criticism by the school committee in early 1875, undoubtedly to the delight of scholars plagued by the subject.It seems to us that an immense amount of time is wasted in the study of Grammar, as conducted in schools. The object of English Grammar is said to be to

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.“The ability to spell English words seems to be a gift of which many people are deprived,” remarked Superintendent Fitts in his report for 1889. Deploring the level of spelling skills found in children and adults alike, Fitts sought to improve the teaching of it in Middleborough schools. Throughout the period, local schools grappled with the best tools to employ in teaching spelling. In 1881,

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.One skill, the loss of which has been greatly lamented in recent years, is that of penmanship. Ironically, the general feeling in the late nineteenth century was also that students wrote poorly, a circumstance attributable to “delaying the beginning of systematic instruction in penmanship till the pupil has formed careless habits by too long use of the pencil.” In 1871, the Middleborough School

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.In the late 1800s, a modified version of the Grube Method of teaching arithmetic was employed in Middleborough schools, including the Green. “By this method the four fundamental rules, together with fractions, are simultaneously taught....All the combinations and separations are taught simultaneously by the use of objects, instead of dwelling on addition till it is mastered, then proceeding to

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.Geography was one of the requirements which Green School pupils had in order to be promoted to Middleborough High School. “Of Geography we would say particularly, that whatever concerns our own country should be most familiarly known by every scholar”, opined the 1872-73 School Committee.Warren’s Geography was the favored text in the 1880s for teaching the subject. Superintendent Fitts

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.In 1885, Superintendent Morss remarked upon the disconnect between the study of geography and history. “These two subjects, as too commonly taught, seem to have no connection with each other; but taught as they should be, they really belong together, and should form a part of the supplementary reading.”History remained an important topic of study, and each grade from 4 through nine had its own

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.In 1885, Massachusetts law made compulsory the teaching of these two subjects in all schools, including “special instruction as to the effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants and narcotics on the human system”, this last stipulation promoted by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. All schools, including the Green, were subsequently supplied with “two books bearing the date 1885, one

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.Massachusetts required drawing be taught in all schools. In 1874-75, it was introduced into the High School and following that introduced into the remaining schools, including the Green, in 1882. Its adoption as a curricular subject was frequently misunderstood at the time, so much so that in 1885, the Middleborough Superintendent of Schools had to explain the rationale for including it as a

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.In 1922, Massachusetts state law required physical training be taught in public schools and the subject was accordingly introduced into the elementary levels in February, 1922. As with the other specialized topics – drawing, music and penmanship – the suburban schools were left to their own devices and had no benefit of the Supervisor of Physical Education, Frank A. Crozier, who was appointed to

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.Throughout its operation, the Green School relied upon a number of sources for textbooks, including Ginn & Co.; American Book Co.; Thompson, Brown & Co.; George F. King & Merrill, and several others. Textbooks were employed by the older students only. “Books are not needed” for younger pupils, wrote Middleborough Superintendent of Schools Willard T. Leonard in 1891, “for all teaching is from the

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. Source: H. C. Spencer, Spencerian Key to Practical Penmanship (New York, NY: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., 1874).

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.In the early years of the Green School, attendance was not always the highest. In 1875-76, 21 pupils between 5 and 15 were enrolled at the Green and the average attendance during the course of the year was 61% (the town average was 69.67%). Partially, the reason for such low figures was that children were needed to assist with chores at home, particularly during the spring and fall terms when

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.Massachusetts state law required that students attend thirty weeks of school during the year (provided “the schools are kept open that length of time”). While Middleborough complied with this law, the number of weeks it offered varied from year to year, largely based upon finances. For instance, in 1878, the school committee was forced to shorten the school year for want of money. “We did this

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.During the 1880s, teachers completed monthly reports on pupils above the primary grades which were submitted to parents, grading students in their various fields of study numerically on a scale of 100.In 1893, the numerical system of grading and the rationale for promoting students came under considerable discussion. Superintendent Jacoby found that “teachers were opposed to the daily marking of

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.As the purpose of the primary and elementary schools was considered fitting the pupil for high school, qualifications for attending high school were established. In 1874, Green School students wishing to further their education at Middleborough High School were expected to complete a satisfactory examination in reading, spelling and writing; to complete Common School Written Arithmetic; to

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.Student health was an increasingly important facet of the educational experience in the twentieth century.Previously, diseases and sickness could severely compromise the work of the school when large numbers of students became ill simultaneously. In December 1885, the Green School was closed for two weeks due to a case of scarlet fever, and in November, 1906, whooping cough at the school was

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.School Committees at the time that the Green School was built in 1871 anticipated that schools would be run in an orderly manner. “The manners of the school room should be those of the well regulated and cultivated home.” Teachers were expected to lead by example and set a high tone within the building. Everything from discourtesy to poor posture was to be corrected and pupils to be reprimanded

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Pupils of the Green School are photographed about 1906 with teacher Bessie B. Bailey.Front row: Charles Erickson, Ruth Bryant, Hyman Gold, William Theall, Annie Erickson, George Hudson, Dorothy Burt, Rosalie Sears, Hattie Sears, Guy O'Brien, Dorothy FessendenBack row: Howard Sparrow, Murray Day, Anna Thompson, Clifton McCrillis, Edward Griffith, Horace Griffith, Ralph Theall, Herbert Erickson,

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Green School students about 1915 with their teacher C. Harold Striley. Note two of the boys wear sweaters marked "GS".Front row: Emil Sears, Lester Beckwith, unknown, Everett Robbins, unknown, ----Maki, William Burt, unknown, Stanley Bailey, Alden Ellis, Ivan Sparrow, Charles HolmesSecond row: Evelyn Commeau, unknown, Violet Maki, Grace Massey, Aili Anderson, Edith Beckwith, Bernice Robbins,

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The photograph depicts the building in the early 1920s before the facade was remodelled to eliminate the dual entrances.

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