No, but close. When I was a teen, I lived in a place called Lockesburg, AR. Population 490 (at the time). It was literally a gas station, a video store, and a diner where two roads (not highway, just roads) met, and a couple of trailer parks worth of people too poor to be farmers. The closest school was for it, the neighboring 4 towns, and the handful of farmsteads in between. It was K-12 all in one set, complete with the old 1-room schoolhouse next to it, still in use for some classes. For an example of what it was like there, my math class had 10 people in it, and I literally knew a 12th grader who graduated without knowing how to read (not that it was his first attempt to do so).
No, but close. When I was a teen, I lived in a place called Lockesburg, AR. Population 490 (at the time). It was literally a gas station, a video store, and a diner where two roads (not highway, just roads) met, and a couple of trailer parks worth of people too poor to be farmers. The closest school was for it, the neighboring 4 towns, and the handful of farmsteads in between. It was K-12 all in one set, complete with the old 1-room schoolhouse next to it, still in use for some classes. For an example of what it was like there, my math class had 10 people in it, and I literally knew a 12th grader who graduated without knowing how to read (not that it was his first attempt to do so).
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