A Two Room School

April 02, 2009

A Two Room School

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Amy Braun loves her job teaching at an historic two-room schoolhouse in Vermont. She says the 209-year-old school is an ideal learning environment for her 8 students. But operating the small school for so few kids is now seen as an expense the town can no longer handle, and the school is scheduled to close.

Amy talks to Dick about why the little school is such a unique learning environment and what value it has in the community.

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