Miss Helen Miller in grade 4 taught us songs and played recordings of folk singers like Alan Mills and Oscar Brand. Mrs. Brown, my grade nine English teacher, played several recordings of songs like The Golden Vanity sung by Burl Ives. Jack Bell was my grade 12&13 English teacher. He had many field recordings by Helen Creighton and Edith Fowke and he'd have us listen to them. He even let me take home an O.J. Abbot recording when I showed interest. After I went to see Pete Seeger at Delta Collegiate in Hamilton, Ont., Mr. Bell brought me a poser for the concert that was hanging in his friend's book store window.
I taught school for thirty some odd years and found that kids loved many folk songs, like Carl Martin's Barnyard Dance, a tune I learned from the New Lost City Ramblers called Hopalong Peter and jug band tunes like Boodle Am Shake. We even had a jug band at my last school.