schoolhouse

About one hundred feet up that path sat the Mary McLeod Bethune Grade School, the white wooden two-room schoolhouse where our town’s Colored children were educated.

Mr. Lloyd’s earliest experiences playing for audiences included work with bluesmen such as Howlin’ Wolf, “in schoolhouses, with corn liquor, gambling and gunshots in the distance,” he told me.

A picket fence is trim, as are the schoolhouse’s large windows.

A top-notch campus alone does not produce academic achievement — and, conversely, a brilliant teacher and an assiduous student in a one-room schoolhouse can make for an upstanding education.

Athletic contests are a schoolhouse of democracy that inculcates the habits of civic engagement necessary for a free people to thrive.