Chinese schoolchildren as young as five forced to scale sheer cliffs to get to school. Mountain-top village of only 100 residents is cut off from the outside world, apart from ladders leading to valley below.

Selection of funny school textbook fails.

Other than your everlasting sense of guilt.

Abandoned school in Detroit. Then and now. So sad.

High school photos of famous rock stars.

The Belchertown State School for the Feeble-Minded was established in 1922 in Belchertown, Massachusetts. It became known for inhumane conditions and poor treatment of its patients, and became the target of a series of lawsuits prior to its eventual closing in 1992.

Six kids, no car… Emily Finch from Portland, Oregon, found the way out!

What a great tradition. Father was taking a photo of his son on each first day of school.

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The former adult actress Sasha Grey participated in the Read Across America literacy program by reading to a first grade class at Emerson Elementary School in Compton, CA.