Educational Foundations Traditional Cache

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onecrazycanadian: Hi,

The low health score on this cache has remained below 60 since my last contact. I see no sign of any maintenance being done to correct this and I have had no response from the owner since my last contact. Due to the lack of response I have no idea if any corrective action has been taken or if the owner has confirmed the cache is still in place. Consequently I am archiving the cache at this time.

Under the following portion of the guidelines contained in the Help Center, it states the cache will not be unarchived if it was archived for lack of maintenance.

https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=38&pgid=56

Thanks!
onecrazycanadian
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Hidden : 1/7/2012
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

The first in our series of one-room schoolhouse series.

Adrian Paton of Arcola, SK, provides a history of rural schools in the area, including "Educational Foundations."

The establishment of a school district required the work and co-operation of several local people and a number of government departments. A school district was required to cover an area of not more than twenty-five square miles, not more than five miles in length or width. The school house was centrally located so that the distance from school for any child should not exceed three miles. The district had to contain at least four resident ratepayers and twelve children between the age of five and sixteen years.

Due to a declining rural population and the implementation of the larger school unit in the late 1950’s the one room country school has virtually disappeared.

One of the early school districts south of the Moose Mountains was “Swift Creek #261” established in 1892. The second Swift Creek School built in 1908 still stands today (2011).

In early June the basement nearing completion, the bricks received from Portage la Prairie and the lumber purchased, The Department of Education ordered them not to proceed with the building. The reason given for this was that the boundaries of the district were not permanent and that it would be impossible to move a brick building to a central position should it become necessary.” The Department later withdrew its objections.”

Now over 100 years old this beautiful old brick school still stands (2011).

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