The Schoolhouse

Built by Aaron Pickering, this four–room schoolhouse now operates from a single room with but one teacher. Miss Aida Simpson, nearly fifty years old, tries to handle a class of thirty–four students spread across grades 1 through 8. High school students, grades 9 through 12, take a bus to Bolton where they attend Bolton High School. Many choose not to and drop out of school instead.
If one stops by after class lets out at 3 p.m., Rodney Greene will be there, playing kickball with two younger students, a girl about twelve and a boy about the same age.
Aida Simpson has been teaching at the school for almost twenty years and remembers a time when all four classrooms were operating and Foxfield taught its own high school grades. “Now, so many of our students are dropping out after eighth grade, sometimes sooner,” she laments. “The tragic irony,” she explains, “is that with so few jobs here, most of them eventually move to Bolton looking for unskilled jobs in the mills.”

Type

School

Parent Location

Foxfield