One local school district started classes yesterday, but the children attended a much bigger school than this old one-room schoolhouse found in Mercer, Wisconsin. It probably was not a wise thing to get on the bad side of the teacher since you would have the same teacher normally for most of your school years in that one room school.

I don’t know why the restored schoolhouse was named the Shirley Sleight School, but there was a Shirley Sleight who lived in Mercer.  She was born in 1917, married and had two children (by the 1940 census) and seemed active in the community as a performer in “Moonlight Serenade” in 1957 for a fund raiser a park and in 1998 was still active in the The Depot Historical Society and the depot museum, which is where the school is located, so I assumed it was named in honor of her service and volunteer work. She died in 2004.

Shirley Sleight School

And a peek inside.