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Visiting the one-room schoolhouse in the Tassajara Valley is one of the highlights of attending elementary school in the San Ramon Valley, as well as a long-lasting memory. This week, Roving Reporter Stan Wharton asked third graders from Green Valley Elementary What do you like about attending school in 1888?
Part of the school district’s local history curriculum, the Tassajara School was built in 1889 as a one room elementary and functioned until 1946 when enrollment declined too low to keep it open. Over 30,000 students have experienced an 1888 school day in the interactive living museum setting, which graduated many members of pioneer families such as Roger Povda, Gordon Rasmussen and Betty Casey.
Each student picked an “old” name to match their 1800’s dress.
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Sofia (Phoebe) Viscuglia: We make up our own names that were typical of that time. We get to write with ink and a quill pen, and we don’t have to have P.E. We get a free recess with games instead. -
Nicholas (Matthew) Lin: I like the individual slate boards where we write problems with chalk. I also like writing with the quill and ink. -
Ella (Faith) Damasching: I like writing with the quill pens and the things you can play at recess. It’s very easy here. -
Grant (Isaac) Stedman: It’s easier to find things like reading books and song books. -
Sadie (Abigail) Homes: I like that there’s no computers, and we get to write with quill pens and ink. We also get to write problems with chalk on a slate board and erase it with a sock.
