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4 4 Travelling around Greece June 2022
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The story

We, the children in the couple Panagiotis and Maria
third and fourth grade of Makarouna donated a
primary school, wrote house to Church on
articles about the old condition that they would
schools and interviewed our use it only as a school, as it
relatives and residents of happened.
our village, Kalavarda, who Anna-Fotini
talked to us about their Papatheodorou-Danae
school years. Dimitra-Irini Karanatsiou
We looked up in the old
archives of our school to find On the way to school The teachers took the milk, of slaps. The children did
everything correctly in order
heated it in a pan, and
out when the school had In 1950 students had to shared a ladle with each kid not to be hit by the teachers
started operating, how be at school early. in their small tin canisters, and, sometimes, they were
many students were each But there were no primary with a little cheese and a standing on one leg in a
year, and the names of the schools in all villages and as slice of bread. corner of the class.
teachers who were a result, students were Anna- Fotini Sotiris Kasanis-
teaching. walking for one hour to get to Papatheodorou Panagiotis Giannakopoulos
Also, we presented our school, in harsh weather
school as it is today and how conditions. The school inspectors The school garden
we spend our time in it. We should bear in mind School inspectors were My school has a big
Sotiris Kasanis- Katherine that not all kids had shoes those people who visited garden. Long ago, they
– Anna Chatzinikola- and warm clothes in those schools to check if students planted rosebushes in the
Panagiotis Giannakopoulos years. were working properly and whole garden. Even longer
–Αnna Anna-Fotini Also, some kids took off observe their teachers’ work ago, my school had fruit and
Papatheodorou-Danae their shoes and walked
Dimitra-Irini Karanatsiou barefoot in order not to as well. So, in this way, vegetables. At the end of the
school year, the kids were
teachers were feeling very
damage the only pair they stressed and they tried to selling them and got money to
The foundation had. prepare pupils by telling the go on holiday. Now we
of our school Irini Karanatsiou
Our school was questions and answers that planted various vegetables,
the school inspectors were
such as onions, leeks and
established after the official 1960-The Breadline about to make. That was not lettuce. We created groups
decree numbered 27260 / In 1960, the school my a very nice way for the kids that will plant, clear the
20-8-47 of the military grandma used to go to was to learn them. Luckily, we ground and take away
commander of Dodecanese. ‘dithesio’, meaning that it don’t have school inspectors garbage that will be close to
The school was relegated to had only two teachers. now. our plants. Many students,
monothesio (meaning one These teachers were Danae Dimitra and both in the old times and
teacher teaching at school) teaching all classes and Irini Karanatsiou nowadays, like cultivating
after the ministerial decree they were very strict. There plants. I feel great that my
numbered 119.467 /9-9-70. were Turkish toilets outside The punishments school has such a wonderful
The benefactors and a building where kids In old times, punishments garden!
When Italians were eating. The state included the use of a Danae Dimitra
commanded the island, the provided only breakfast.
wooden stick and a couple