Jessica: How long was your school year? I know that it’s 180 now, but there must have been more time off?
Dillard: We started right after Labor Day and we always got out the last of May. Usually around May 29. Yeah, because I don’t think we had any spring vacation. But, yeah, we always got [...]

Arithmetic
1. a. 5/9 of 45 =
   b.  4 ½ + 3 1/5 =
   c. 6.2 x 4.076 =
   d. 5 lbs. 3oz. – 2lbs. 7oz. =
   e. 2 yds. 2 ½ ft. =               feet
2. a. What is the commission at 5% on the sale of goods to the amount of
$16,230,000?
   b. Our school yard is [...]

 (Olympia News 10-7-1932)
Budgets for the various school districts of the county have been approved and levies fixed.  As a general thing the levies have had to be increased slightly, but owing to the lower valuations, the amount of money to be collected for 1933 is in most cases considerable below that raised for 1932.  A [...]

All in School Again

The Morning Olympian October 1, 1894
Now for Another Winter of Hard Brain Work.
Education Too Often Obtained at the Expense of Nerve Force. Parents Study the Problem of Keeping Up Health at School. School has been open nearly a month. The streets are crowded with “shining morning faces,” full of eagerness and ambition. [...]

Education Around the County:  1913 
Introduction:  The following are a series of articles related to education which appeared in the Washington Standard, published in Olympia. 
Miss Alice Hughes will also resume her school duties on Monday. She teaches in the McKenzie district, where the children have been enjoying a three weeks’ vacation.
Washington Standard
January 17, 1913
Students Get Back
All [...]

Education Around the County:  1912 
Introduction:  The following are a series of articles related to education which appeared in the Washington Standard, published in Olympia. 
Incendiarism was attempted on the Washington School building Monday evening about 11 o’clock. The Olympian says “the flames were started by pouring coal oil, or some other illuminant in the south entrance” [...]

Education Around the County:  1911
Introduction:  The following are a series of articles related to education which appeared in the Washington Standard, published in Olympia. 
The school census enumerators for this district are W.D. Manier, O.C. Nally, Mrs. Holloman and Clifford Miller. This duty in the country districts is being performed by the respective clerks of the [...]

Education Around the County:  1910
Introduction:  The following are a series of articles related to education which appeared in the Washington Standard, published in Olympia. 
Aberdeen girls will line up against the Olympia “Hi” girls in a game of basket-ball to-morrow night, in the high school gymnasium.
Washington Standard
February 10, 1910
At Tono, a little mining town in the [...]

Education Around the County:  1909
Introduction:  The following are a series of articles related to education which appeared in the Washington Standard, published in Olympia.  
Some of our local school teachers think that the staggering appropriators of our last Legislature spell future retrenchment that the commencement will be made at the point of reducing teachers’ salaries, because [...]

Education Around the County:  1905 
Introduction:  The following are a series of articles related to education which appeared in the Washington Standard, published in Olympia. 
The Eighth grade pupils of Lincoln school are planning an entertainment and debate on the last day of school- next Friday- to which parents and friends are invited. The question to be [...]