by Ron Wilson, director, Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development at Kansas State University
Travel through rural America along country roads, and you will occasionally spot an old, dilapidated building near the road. The roof and walls are in poor repair, the windows are broken out, and the yard is overcome with weeds. This long-neglected rustic structure was the one-room school, once at the forefront of public education in Kansas.
K-State doctoral student Matthew Skillen brings to us the story of one of the last remaining one-room school teachers. Laurence Pacey of Miltonvale, Kansas has a rich history from the one-room school era of Kansas public education.
