This is awesome
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The Amish are very good in working together.
Some pics from a trip to Amish (Schwartzentruber) country in Ohio
One room schoolhouse
Baling hay
Going to town
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Thanks for sharing, @taiwan_girl !
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Great book to read about the Schwartzentruber Amish ( which are the most strict of the various Amish people) is a book called "Plain Secrets". Written about the Amish in the area of the pictures above.
For example, these sect of Amish are so strict that they do not allow cushions in their house except for the bed. They were even against having the orange triangle on the back of their wagon carriage, but were forced to do it.
Even though they give the kids a year to go out and explore the outside world, of all the Amish sects, almost 100% of the Schwartzentruber Amish return - one of the reasons is that the outside world is so different for them that there is no way for them to adapt.
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An Amish lady trots down the road in her horse and buggy when a cop pulls her over. "Ma'am," says the cop, "I'm not going to ticket you, but I do have to issue you a warning. You have a broken reflector on your buggy."
"Oh, I'll let my husband, Jacob, know as soon as I get home," responds the Amish lady.
"That's fine. Another thing, ma'am. I don't like the way that one rein loops across the horse's back and around his balls. I consider that animal abuse. Have your husband take care of that right away," instructs the cop.
Later, the lady tells her husband about her encounter with the cop.
"He said the reflector is broken," she tells her husband.
"I can fix that in two minutes. What else?" asks Jacob.
She says, "I'm not sure, Jacob -- something about the emergency brake."
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We have Amish communities all around where I live. They're expanding into neighboring farm communities and doing rather well here.
@brenda said in This is awesome:
We have Amish communities all around where I live. They're expanding into neighboring farm communities and doing rather well here.
I grew up around 'em. Take any road out from the house in which I grew up, you'd find an Amish or Mennonite community within 5 miles. One of the smartest folks I ever knew in school was Mennonite. She absolutely destroyed the SATs and AP exams. She went back home to work in her community's schoolhouse.
According to my dad, the best classes he ever taught were the ones he was asked to teach in Amish- or Mennoniteland.
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@brenda said in This is awesome:
We have Amish communities all around where I live. They're expanding into neighboring farm communities and doing rather well here.
I grew up around 'em. Take any road out from the house in which I grew up, you'd find an Amish or Mennonite community within 5 miles. One of the smartest folks I ever knew in school was Mennonite. She absolutely destroyed the SATs and AP exams. She went back home to work in her community's schoolhouse.
According to my dad, the best classes he ever taught were the ones he was asked to teach in Amish- or Mennoniteland.
@Aqua-Letifer It is too bad that most (or many) of the Amish stop school at Grade Level 8. I believe that they won a US Supreme Court law that allows them to stop at that point.
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@Aqua-Letifer It is too bad that most (or many) of the Amish stop school at Grade Level 8. I believe that they won a US Supreme Court law that allows them to stop at that point.
@taiwan_girl said in This is awesome:
@Aqua-Letifer It is too bad that most (or many) of the Amish stop school at Grade Level 8. I believe that they won a US Supreme Court law that allows them to stop at that point.
Yeah, I think it depends on the community how they decide to do it. Considering what high-school experiences can be in many parts of the country, though, I'm not universally convinced that the Amish have the wrong idea.
