Getting Up Early for School

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Getting Up Early

In the early 1940’s the Long Branch School District voted to consolidate with the Carthage
Independent School District. The Carthage school system has always provided bus tramsportation to the
studnets in the rural areas of the county.

One problem of this serivce was that the kids who lived a greater distance from the schools had
to get up awfully early to catch the bus. Our school bus picked us up at 6:30 a.m. and we did not get to
school until 8:00. We some of the first ones on and almost the last ones off the bus arriving back at the
house at 4:15 p.m. We had to “ride the route” and that made for a lot of opportunities for us to
misbehave.

When we got home from school we were always starving. Mother usually had something leftover
breakfast or dinner for us to eat. In the country, we ate breakfast, dinner and supper. I still have to think
when someone invites to dinner. I lived in the country too long....