Ybor City Tape

Wilson interview

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M: So one teacher would have all the first grades students, and

 another teacher would have all the second grade students?

W: Well, they might have four or five students, four or five

 teachers for the first grade. Or two or three teachers.

M: But that teacher would have all the students all day?

W: Yeah, yeah.

M: And Ybor ...

W: The platoon school was different.

M: Now I begin to understand.

W: Later I think they abolished the platoon school at Ybor for two

 reasons. One is because it was differi-ft, and the other is be-

 cause we no longer needed it from the standpoint of the number

 of people going there.

M: Well, what wouldyou have to be teaching young children shop

 for at that age?

W: well, as I told you, see, many of them weren't very young.

M: Oh. So it was a very special school population.

W: Yeah. I think only the fourth, fifth, and sixth grade kids

 took shop. I'm not sure. I don't remember.

M: How about home ec.?

W: Same thing, I think with home ec., I'm not sure.

M: Physical ed. would be the same way?

W: Physical ed. they all had. We had them all. We had first

 grades, chart classes, everything on up.

M: Let me summarize that. There were chart classes, which, as