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B: Why don't they?

C: Well, it is because-parents are not interested in their children like they
 were in those days. Parents used to come to PTA meetings. They would
 ask teachers about their children's work. Now, you can talk with parents
 but if you do not just tell them about their children's work, they will
 not even ask you.

B: What made parents be interested in their children then?

C: I guess from way back, their parents were interested in their children
 more so. Parents are not interested in their children like they used to
 be. I hate to say it but it is true.

B: What about supplies in the school system?

C: Oh, there is plenty of supplies now, but when I taught school there were
 very few.

B: What did you do for supplies? Did you have to make yours or what?

C: Yes. Sometimes we would have to make up our own spelling, or own math
 because some of the pages would be missing. See, we would get the books that
 were used over at the white school and sometimes the pages would be torn
 out. That was way back, but in my last beautiful year, I had everything
 I needed.

B: Do you feel that you did an excellent job with the supplies that you had
 twenty years ago?

C: I do, because I had it to do.

B: Why?

C: In order to let the children learn, you had to be a pretty good teacher
 to do that. I taught at Hawthorne when I first started but we did not
 have lunchrooms. Children brought their lunches to school. We did
 have water on campus.

B: As a teacher, at this school in Hawthorne, did you have a person who was
 your administrator over you that saw you daily? Who was in charge?

C: Yes, we had a principal, Mr. Hamp Williams.

B: Was he on campus with you?

C: Yes, he was staying at the shcool.

B: And then when you left Hawthorne, where did you come to?

C: I went on to Levy County, to Williston High School. I taught there for fifteen
 years.

B: Was it worth your time commuting from Gainesville to Williston?