A nice story!-----“What are we doing for the farm girls?”

In December 1909, at a teachers’ conference in Columbia, South Carolina, a government speaker stood proudly explaining a new federal program for boys. - Things You Didn’t Know About Animals and Nature 

Young farm boys across the South were receiving seed, land, and agricultural training. 

Their crops were producing harvests far larger than their fathers had ever managed. 

Newspapers called it progress. 

Officials called it a success.

• At the back of the room sat a 27-year-old schoolteacher named Marie Cromer.
• She taught in a one-room schoolhouse in rural Aiken County. 

She was the teacher, the principal, the administrator, and often the only educated adult many children saw all week.

• She listened quietly.
• Then she raised her hand.
• “What are we doing for the farm girls?”...