Getting To School

How far did you have to travel to attend elementary, junior high, and high school, and how did you get there?

1st - 3rd I had school on my back porch! Fourth grade was in Kansas City. I think some neighbors drove us to school. I remember experiencing my first hail in the Quanstrom's car.

I started 5th grade at a boarding school in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. I think it took my parents two days to travel from the village of Senahu to get to my school. I finished fifth grade at a school in San Antonio. My brother and I had to ride a city bus to get back and forth to school at Woodrow Wilson. We moved and went to Woodlawn elementary in San Antonio. We walked to school, but it was not real close. I took 7th and 8th grade by correspondence and my classroom was my bedroom! I came to the US lacking 60 days of 8th grade and they made me repeat it! I walked to that school in Lakeland, Fl. Probably a little more than a mile. That was for 9th grade as well. I took 10th grade at Galion High in Galion, Ohio. I walked there as well. It was not real close! I took 11th at Southeast High in Kansas City and I walked to school. It was rather close. My senior year I took the same year as my junior year at Westport Evening Adult High. It was far and my brother-in-law, Don Baker gave me rides to that school!