Without the jobs they provide, few people could live here, and there certainly would be no one-room school.

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Computers and VCRs may coas a lot, but it's doubtful that they are a greater burden than one-room school houses were for the cruelly poorer America of 60 years ago.

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And on October 2nd a 32-year-old milk-truck driver, Charles Roberts, entered a one-room Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania.

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After all, I attended a one-room elementary school and did not even have a classmate until I went to high school.

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There in a one-room schoolhouse he had learned his lessons, in the days before the destruction of the public-school system.

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She has a great nephew who is a first-grader that attends the school and was one room away from the shooting.

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His first school, he recalled, was a one-room affair built by his father.

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They could, in theory, remove these additional papers from a school's store room and no-one would know.

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She graduated from school at age 12 and became a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse.

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Its two cofounders and some of their high school crew slept on mattresses lining the floor of a garage next to their one-room Palo Alto office.

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