Show teacher s smoke signals backfire instructors miscue starts school row in oklahoma OKLAHOMA CITY the school house in prairie grove didn dian t burn down but it may have gone up in smoke all because the teacher miss ruth shote of edmond okia okla used an old trick of the indians smoke signals now her system has backfired miss shote told her pupils that in case of bad weather they were to come to school only if they saw smoke coming from th the e school house on the first day of a big snow storm she told the students there e would be no school the next day however the next morning bright and early she went to school to tidy up the place and naturally built a big log tire fire to keep warm two of the school s 15 pupils saw the smoke thought teacher had changed her mind and trudged through the snow to their lessons for three days they plowed back and forth they were marked present and the other 13 absent now according to the records the school s daily average for the year Is just a fraction less than 13 under state law if a school fails to maintain a daily average attend ance of 13 pupils it must be an by another district eddie higgins chief examiner for the education department says the attorney general will now have to answer the question can a school go up the chim clurn ney |