Teacher Fred Sloman teaches a lesson on a school train. 1954, Canada.
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00:00Teacher Fred Sloman teaches a lesson on a school train.
00:171954, Canada.
00:20The School on Wheels in Canada, which existed from 1926 to 1967, was a unique educational
00:28initiative aimed at educating children in remote and hard-to-reach areas.
00:34A train converted into a mobile school traveled to remote villages and farms, providing children
00:41with the opportunity to receive an education despite geographical barriers.
00:47A week of stopover, teachers teach, children learn, then the train moves on, stops in a
00:53new place.
00:55Children returns after five weeks, teachers check homework, and so on in a circle.
01:01There were about a dozen students per stop.
01:04Teachers lived on the train for almost a year.
01:07Fred Sloman was a record holder in this.
01:10He worked as a teacher from the inception of this initiative until 1965.
01:16He lived on the train all this time with his wife and seven children.