I,too, went to Oak Grove Elementary in a rural area and had to ride in a van that had benches wired to the walls and the door was held close with baling wire and we picked up the teacher along the route to school. No running water and a wood burning stove that we kept going by carrying in logs from the wood shed. Every one drank from the same ladel and the water came from a well that gave icy cold water on the hottest of days. How did we survive? Loved it.