My PARENTS' WORK - District of Saanich

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"I didn't do my homework unless I really had
to, or I did it at the last minute which is
typical for a boy."
LYLE HAYDEN, 66
"I went to a school called the 'Model School'
where they taught the normal students and
which is now Camosun College. This is the
school where they were learning to be teachers
and we were there to be experimented on and
demonstrated on. We had grades one to four
in one little classroom and one teacher. She
would teach our row which was eight or 10
children, then she would move on to the next
row and on and on. It was very interesting,
because you could see what was going on in
the next section."
Tillicum School Class, 1917
ABOUT CLASS SIZE ...
BETTY-JEAN 'BJ' (SAUNDERS) FAIR
J.
"Strangely enough, when we gOt into Grade 6
we were segregated-the girls were in one class
and the boys were all in the other, and that's
the way it was through grades 6, 7 and 8. They
thought it was proper."
MAY CROFT, 77
"In Grade 1 and 2, I was in St. Ann's so there
were probably 20 in a class. In Grade 3, I was
in a one room school on McTavish Rd. which
is still there, and all grades were in one- room,
about 24 kids. From then on there were 25-30,
sometimes 35, in one grade. When we got into
high school, there weren't that many kids so
quite often Grade 11 and 12 would be together
because there might be nine graduating."
PAT GAIT, 64
"In Quadra, there would be 32 students in a
grade. When I went to Gordon Head, it was
only a two-room schoo!. In Grade 7, there
were only four of us and in Grade 8, there
were three of us. Of course, Grades 5 and 6
would be in the room so the teacher would
teach all four grades. In the other room would
be Grades 1 to four."
JAMES 'JIM' S. HOGG, 83
"When I went to
Tillicum, there was
one grade per room,
maybe with 25-30
students, but we had a
different system. In
one room you'd have
2A and 2B so the 2B's
would not be quite as
far along as the 21\s.
In a way, it was
almost as if you had
split the class into
two."
RUTH (FARQUHAR) MANNIX, 74
"Initially I went to the
old Cedar Hill
School, not the
original, but the one
that was rebuilt. There
were only three classrooms, Times were
desperate-although there were about 10-12
children in a class, there were two or three
classes in a room,"
JOHN E. 'JACK' MERRETI 87