Declan Murphy wrote:

> ifignow wrote:
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/19/education/19WYOM.html
>
> Shirley the opposite extreme would be a "one student school" in Japan.
> There is bound to be one somewhere, I've read about at least 10 schools
> with fewer than 10 students. What is the smallest school in Japan? On an
> island in the setonaikai p'raps?

Yes, for one woman on JET working out of the area near Akitsu, Hiroshima in
1993, one school was on an island with one student. When children reach junior
high, they must take the ferry somewhere else. And when that child becomes
junior high age, that school was to be closed down completely. On the JET
Program, my junior high school had directories of public schools in the
prefecture. I looked through it to see how small schools got. I've seen at
least one other school with just one student (don't remember name or where),
one principal, one vice principal (they had teaching duties), and one other
person to make the lunch.

> Oh and the article for those without a subscription would be sumthin
> like this.....
>
> **********************************************************
>
> In Some Schools, It's One Teacher, One Student
> By SAM DILLON
>
> Published: January 19, 2004
>
> ROCK RIVER, Wyo. -- Tucked high up in the snow-swept Laramie Mountains
> sits a public school with just one young teacher, Rebecca Rodgers, and
> her lone student, Joe Kennedy, a seventh grader.

Late last year was the British school advertising for a teacher for a single
pupil, and the stir it caused, postponing class, when a teacher was found.

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