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As hard times arrived, people outside education naturally enough wanted to save money by trimming education down to its sparest functions. Many schools were closed. Georgia shut down 1,318 schools, leaving 170,790 children without instruction. During the 1932-1933 school year 81 percent of white children in rural Alabama had no schools. Other districts reduced their hours of operation. In Dayton, Ohio, schools were open only three days a week. By the score, schools cut recently introduced programs such as art, music, manual arts, home economics, physical education, and health. Vocational education, the foremost educational innovation of the 1920s, was virtually eliminated. In New York State, 97 of 110 school districts with populations higher than five thousand had no vocational education. Textbook purchases between 1930 and 1934 fell by a third nationwide. One fifth-grade class in Waukegan, Illinois, was forced to share a single textbook, from which the teacher read aloud. Many...
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