A. Stewart MacDonald D.F.C., M.D. C..M.

enjoyed teaching that year and still like to meet my former students.

We put on a concert to pay for single seats which we bought second hand from a Charlottetown school. We had a lot of fun practising for the concert. We also had a baseball team and I recall playing a game with Flat River.

One thing I could never tolerate was students talking in class, even when I taught Veterans in High School. One time when I was a mere AC2 in the RCAF I was having a class in which a number of officers dropped in, and they started to talk in the back. I forgot all about rank and asked them to leave or keep quiet, so I guess if I could keep control of men, I had no trouble with children.

LITTLE SANDS SCHOOL

My next year of teaching was in Little Sands school as a First Class teacher. There were four of my sisters attending school. None of them ever misbehaved in school, although they did not stop telling me what they thought at home. My youngest sister, who went to Boston at an early age, always had a smile when I looked at her.

I later went to Prince of Wales College at the same time as my Grade X class, including my sisters. My aim was to get all my grades to pass the entrance class to Prince of Wales College. I had gone to school with the older students - it must have been hard for them being bossed around. Another aim was to make Grade I pupils faster to add than those in Grade X. I taught phonics, and one Grade I student was able to read the Bible to her aging grandmother in the evening, by the last of the school year. I had one pupil who later became a policeman in Brampton, Ontario, who could add faster than anyone I ever saw. I

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