Dr. Phil Show Hosts Missing Portland Child Kyron Horman’s Step Mom Terri Horman Over Two Episodes
I have been covering this case since Kyron Horman disappeared from Skyline School in June, 2010. Like most missing persons cases I have covered in the past, I am of the strong opinion that best efforts at the truth are the only way to propel investigations that, similarly to Kyron’s, have gone cold for one reason or another. This approach has worked in resolving some of my previous cases. I am proud of that. I remain steadfast to the integrity involved in those and future cases.
Over the past 10 months (or so) I have been developing an updated series on Kyron’s case to include my multiple interviews with Kyron’s step-mom, Terri Horman. Needless to say as she was the subject of at least three simultaneous cases before an Oregon court and remains a person of interest by the agency investigating her sons disappearance, this has been an arduous and sometimes delicate journey. Ms. Horman’s experiences during the ongoing investigation of the disappearance of Kyron Horman are critically important to propelling his case and with great hope- finding the truth about what happened to this cherubic and innocent child. There are dozens of sources, collateral interviews, forensic experts and legal analysts that also contribute to my series and have done so because of their belief that my motivation is to bring to light information and opinions in such a way that would almost “require” a focused review of Kyron’s case and the likely shaking of that proverbial tree everyone talks about.
Set to publish about 6-ish weeks ago I was asked to postpone the first installment of the series, which I did. I subsequently learned Ms. Horman was participating in the Dr. Phil program after she completed taping. Dr. Phils producers were well aware that Ms. Horman had interviewed with me extensively, and anticipated my series would be publishing information that was not known to the public previously in the days prior to her scheduled episode. When Ms. Horman conveyed to me that she feels obligated to speak out about “her son” in any national medium that will have her, I most certainly respected that. I still do.
While Dr. Phil seems like a gregarious fellow for sure, I have zero interest in being associated with his program, nor do I believe his shows content is designed to do any furtherance of investigation or truth. There is much concern (although I have no affiliation to the show whatsoever) that the timing of the publication of my series on the Kyron Horman matter might be interpreted differently or inadvertently contribute to the programs content or audience reactions. Not what I signed on for. A missing 7 year old boy six years running is not a framework for entertaining a target audience. He is not fodder for online social media bully campaigns- yet it occurs.
I will be publishing my series on Kyron’s case at a later date, in it’s entirety with no editing adjustments as a result of any of the appearances on Dr. Phil. I appreciate your patience and your understanding. Feel free to discuss the show below.
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O/T
The 71-year-old mayor of a southern Oregon town was arrested Sunday, accused of setting up a meeting to have sex with a 14-year-old girl who turned out to be a police officer.
Kenneth Lewis Barrett, who began his two-year term as mayor of Winston in January, spent two weeks exchanging Facebook messages with an online decoy created to target adults soliciting sex with children, court documents said.
He was arrested when he showed up to a designated meeting spot in Myrtle Creek, police said.
Barrett mentions in the online messages several times that he’s mayor of Winston, acknowledges the decoy is 14 and describes himself as “71 with the mind of a 17 year old and the energy of a 12 year old,” according to a probable cause affidavit.
(snipped)
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2017/03/oregon_mayor_accused_of_solici.html
This town is right next door to Roseburg. Is there no end to this chit?
So if kyron’s custodial father had sued possible defendants they would be
Portland Public School District; Portland Public School Board; PPS Supt; Principal Keefer (all 4 entities re failures as to safety policies/procedures); Porter, Mathews (duty of care, procedural negligance); the pm bus driver (why not?) ; Skyline school resource officer, pta to the extent coplanned and spinsored the Fair, Portland PS’ IB program ditto, transportation and maintenance supervisor for the School District.
Kaine’s suits would be brought partly to ensure the protection of students while under “public supervision and care,” seeking unspecified economic damages for medical, therapy and other expenses, and non-economic damages for pain and suffering and punitive damages”
The only reason he could not file
would be if competent tort attys sized the
case up as too weak to take on contingency.
And why would that be?
only a robust pps defense.
TY for the brilliant explanation.
wrt “why nobody in LE has requested
an interview with their chief suspect and continued gj target in over 6 years ”
One wonders why the bios not only haven’t
tackled mcso’s Det Relentless Aggressive
and his supervisors over this, they have
misrepresented mcso and their POI over this very
matter repeatedly, attributing the failure to continue
to interview with mcso to her.
One wonders if Mult Cty’s exposure to a tort suit and damages bt TMH was one factors (among many suits against the Dept) leading Cty powers that be to pressure Staton to retire and thereafter to reassign some personnel? (tho not the relevant 3 in Investigations.) In the damages phase of a suit, the County coukd argue mcso has been cleaned up and the culture has changed.
“Fast forward to recent events in CA that are apparently connected to MCSO involvement directly.”
Reprehensible.
And, this occurred under Reese.
So much for his supervision and control
of his deputies. Maybe as a new Sheriff he
just wanted Union reps to like him.
Oh boy! Do I ever agree with you, Blink.
I think there are several behemoths that know that they sit on a potential lawsuit of lasting ramifications.
Too bad instead of doing the right thing, the CYA approach leaves a missing boy missing.
@Tiny. Speaking of behemoths, it was the duty of the County Chair and then Commissioners in 2010 to supervise the Sheriff’s Dept wrt its policies, procedures, & personnel conduct.
We KNOW the County Chair and Commissioners FAILED wrt their legal Duty of Supervision from 2010-2016 when Staton retired. Their are muktiple settlements and complaints from internal personnel so attesting.
That is fact. Imo those are the Behemoths amongst TMH’s de facto defendants. Ergo they, not PPS, are in the Behemoth Negligence Hot Seat. That’s Kafoury and …..
Soldier has run a clean site for a week.
If due to Davidsons, kudos.
that would be lover boy & smoker Cogen, mckeel, shipwrack, smith, kafoury etc
https://multco.us/board/past-boards-commissioners
who failed in their duty of supervision wrt mcso/da depts.
The school District has set themselves up for a major legal action if some non-profit group were to make it one of their cases. TH does not and never did have funds or knowledge to defend herself against this ugly situation.
MCSO going across state lines to attack TH leaves them exposed to criminal charges with a whole group of people possibly going to jail.
The State of Oregon is also derelict in their duty to insure that a rogue LEA or DA has not used their authority to harass a citizen via their offices.
Where is the State of Oregon Attorney General regarding this case? If those of us who have followed the case are able to see all of the dirty work of people working or rather not working the case with evidence, why not the State AG?
O/T
The Portland mayor and city council are considering asking home owners to allow the homeless to camp in their back yards. With people like this running things, it is no surprise that the PPS, PPB and all other groups are more than a little messed up.
That L Smithi is on the public gravy train thanks 2 wyden.
she retired as his constituent aide after 20 yrs
and waltzed into a Commissioner’s salary.
As a congressional office AA (briefly) I learned Congress employees’
pension plan is far more lucrative % wise than that of employees in
Exec Branch agencies (which I’d also been in).
What a sinocure for any Senator’s office aide to
retire to a plum elected job for pers pension no 2.
on the other hand, her son is troubled,
so the doubke dipped $ come in handy.
but imo if wyden says to jump in her CC role, she’d say how high.
ot
http://www.wweek.com/uncategorized/2017/03/24/portland-mayor-with-little-explanation-places-police-chief-on-paid-leave/
better
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.oregonlive.com/v1/articles/20383926/mayor_puts_police_chief_mike_m.amp
—–
and there I’d been thinking the O publishes nothing but small time weird crimes and human interest stories.
and wondering why Wheeler has not employed PPB to bring order to his meetings and home.
imo wheeler does not trust ppb.
http://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2017/03/09/18886989/two-top-police-officials-were-placed-on-leave-yesterday
first thing marshman does on promotion
is remove the head of Internal Affairs.
then puts him on leave.
just to shake up cobwebs he says.
seemingly, the spider had something on him.
Neutral attire alert as my office is undergoing some system upgrades
http://www.columbian.com/news/2017/mar/24/portland-mayor-puts-police-chief-on-paid-leave/
This Davis has had quite the career. Marshman’s first acts included promoting him from Captn to Commander and giving him Central Precinct. Apparently he lasted there only 6 months before he was brought to work in Marshman’s office. And now he is Acting Chief.
@ATG. The State AG Ellen R has been ineffectual since her election.
I attribute her State AG annointing to Wyden;
she and her husband (WW coowner)run in his cultural/religious/political circles.
4 more years ATG
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.oregonlive.com/v1/articles/19921423/ellen_rosenblum_sworn_in_for_s.amp
criminal prosecutions and public corruption investigations are on the State AG back burner per press.
But she’s a great social worker.
Unfortunate that Oregon’s first female AG lacks criminal prosecutorial ambitions.
Maybe her Dem followup in 3 yrs will be Rod.
Rose
There must be a statewide “good ole boys & girls” club that controls state and local governments in Oregon. Maybe all of this activity will finally wake up the voting population and they will begin to correct the mess. The comments on the article are not very kind to those involved.
Your link about the promotion of Davis appears to be a planned activity.
Promote “your” guy and then when the opportunity arises, make him the “in-charge” of the PPB.
ot
@ATG wrt “The Portland mayor and city council are considering asking home owners to allow the homeless to camp in their back yards. With people like this running things, it is no surprise that the PPS, PPB and all other groups are more than a little messed up.”
http://blinkoncrime.com/2016/09/21/dr-phil-show-hosts-missing-portland-child-kyron-hormans-step-mom-terri-horman-over-two-episodes/#comments
It seems to me the first order of business for the Mayor is cracking down on PPB to deal with ALL drugs amongst the homeless with no minimum threshhold. let there be misdeanors charged. (the opposite of Rod’s go easy prosecutions.) one cannot hold a job whilst puffing or huffing. No 2 for the Mayor are jobs programs for homeless. And jobs coaching. rent vouchers come in line 3rd imo.
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I’ve been thinking a lot lately K was likely targeted.
possibilities are
1) a contract or employee worker entering Skyline for ancillary services
(for this I like all those Bonneville employees and subKers)
2) family associate or family enemy (meaning either DY, TY, KH, or TH associate fixators)
3) someone in the Skyline parent or teacher associate mix
——
Rose
You have come around to my thoughts of Kyron being a target for a reason other than just an abduction by some pervert. This avenue of investigation has never been mentioned by LE and others. They are too stuck on their attack of TM.
The job of a State Attorney General is not being a social worker. That job is best left to others. The AG is the chief law enforcement officer in the state. When people do not do their job, they need to be replaced.
Your information just verifies my comment about how messed up the Oregon government organizations are.
OH………I wish. This state will never wake up. Well, that is not accurate. Mult Co. will never wake up and they are the ones who put these freaks in office. (Sorry, but the head freak is really making me mad today) Good ole something but I’m not sure it even qualifies as girls and boys.
OK, beyond that, I agree that Kyron was targeted. But to this day it astounds me that someone could walk out of a school with a kid that easily. Where the heck is the outrage?
I know, I ask that all of the time. Or I feel like I do.
one sees no press on
Acting Chief Davis nor
his career trajectory of the last year.
imo Bernstein prints what she’s
spoonfed, but even Budnik & Redden
are absent.
Davis listed as Asst Chief, Services
https://www.portlandoregon.gov/police/article/492458
Bernstein wrote up his promotion Jan 17
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/01/two_retirements_prompts_shuffl.html
but lacked an inquiring mind as to hiw long he’d been a Commander and
hus “success story” in his only 6 months in that promotion at Central.
Bernstein has a short memory wrt her prior reporting.
I thot I remembered Davis as part of the ppb cabal in this imo righteous suit.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.oregonlive.com/articles/12734292/portland_police_lieutenant_fil.amp
Tells me all I need to know about Reese and Davis.
I bet Davis, in charge of Services (incl recordkeelping),
was the whistleblower on the allegedly falsified log.
Imo kyron has no LE ports in the storm amongst Portland LE agencies.
nor, apparently, the parents who keep their eggs in those ibaskets rather than the fbi
as lead or even State police. btw the DA has the power to requesttge State police take over.
cont’d OT
that was another Sean Riddell case.
see no 5, Marshman’s misogeny
http://www.portlandmercury.com/images/blogimages/2014/04/23/1398305631-andrew_2.pdf
Portland reporters wouldn’t go after a story if it slapped them in the face imo. None have foi’d PPS for internal emails and any writings about the abduction. Or about internal memos and emails changing safety policies and procedures as a consequence. All Skyline staff, their supervisors up to Supt, and school resource officers. Bet reporters could document the “man.” that way. with multiple media outlets doing stellar national coverage now, Portland resembles dinosaur-age swamp. Imo it’s owners of local media who don’t want to spend on good reporting.
Tiny, in my experience if a specific victim is targeted, as opposed to a victim of opportunity, it is generally easier to identify either the connection or the actual actor or actors. It is when there is no known connection (stranger) crimes like this they can be incredibly difficult to solve. I certainly have brought forward a number of possible connections over the years but nearly 7 years later I cannot conclude or exclude the possibility.
Based on my knowledge of this case and the inability for suspect zero to be identified to date, I lean to an opportunistic offender. At the time, I recall subsequent attempts in Scappoose, and of course the sexual assault of a 13 y o male in Fanno Creek which remains unsolved.
Re: con’t OT……..wowsa. Not easy to be a woman in PPB.
Color me surprised. Not.
How hard did mcso work at the time and subsequently to id SZ, Blink? are you aware of nonpublic efforts? His very existence was hushed up entirely, and no description was given the public however meager. In fact, in asking for leads, mcso misdirected the press and public to Terri and DDS. It seems to me the mcso “search for connections” began and ended with the stepmother == or to DDS.
I agree with the suggestion SZ had previously been in the school legitimately. I suggest he chose any of several boys of that age-ish and type, picked up several names, & intended to take the one “in line with” his plan which was based on the physical plant layout.
Rather than a city fathers coverup, mcso/da and pps’ responses were as likely to be incompetence, stupidity and laziness. But imo in all institutions targeting Terri, the pervasive misogeny which appears to infect the Portland institutions, well the city auditor excepted, probably overrode all else in targeting stepmother. After all, husband likely said she’s a bitch.
Even ppb Acting Chief Donna Henderson (who was promoted to Asst Chief in 2013 when Kt Andrews finally got promoted) rolled over when she was told to retire early rather than go back to her Asst Chief job. She was rewarded with a liquor board job.
@Rose & ATG March 25, 2017 at 7:41 pm
I know I’m probably a lone voice on this topic here but I just want to go OT for a moment about the housing comment. First of all, it’s not camping, but building a tiny home for a vetted family to live in. (these ‘ADU’ properties are insanely popular for other uses, so they are already here) After 5 years of renting under this program, the tiny house reverts to the homeowner for their own use. Services are provided to the tenants, utilities and other support are covered, what’s not to love? As I said to my husband, if you put a homeless family in a house, what do you have? Answer: A family. I would rather have a formerly homeless family living next door than the revolving door of strangers that is the illgal Airbnb my ‘fancy’ neighbors set up.
The homeless community is quite varied, but the vast majority in Portland & are from here. People priced out of the community they grew up in. Please understand that rents have more than doubled in the past four years. Housing is what these folks need, and then they can have the energy and ability to take on new job training although it is worth noting that many of the homeless are employed in regular work. Imagine how difficult it must be to hold it together, living in a car with your kids.
Focusing on the “worst case” population only is to miss the vast tragedy that is the great majority (but makes better photo ops & perpetuates the fiction that they’re all lazy druggies).
The irony of lumping PPB/MSCO/MSDA as part of ‘those wacky Portland leaders’ is that those institutions have a long, corrupt history in Portland and come from conservative roots. The liberal wackiness is its own problem, but don’t think for a minute that PPB/MSCO/MSDA think that is their circus. PPB is so understaffed that the very idea of sending them to round up all the homeless (and do what with them?) is laughable.
Anyway, Rose, I respect so much of your commentary and the things you have uncovered that influence my city; you’ve made me look twice at several things. I hope I can encourage you to look more closely at this topic and revise your opinion.
What I am ultimately disturbed about is that there is nowhere to go and noone to turn to to right this ship. I was in touch with my county commissioner about Kyron’s case and the MSCO $ accounting of it and was blown off, multiple times. Who do we go to to say: Hey, the DA’s office needs an audit. Something’s fishy at the Sheriff’s office. They can’t even get the police department sorted out and there’s hardly any of them left to wrangle. While this singular case (Kyron’s) is tragic and depressing, I can only imagine what else has been mishandled. Not a great feeling.
Right.
They measured their click bait and reported accordingly. I personally believe that is the largest reason WW stopped Kyron coverage
My best answer is not hard enough. I am aware of non public efforts.
Evie, I just wanted to say I appreciate the reasoned and compassionate post ‘re the o/t (and in some ways not so much) to Rose and ATG.
B
@evie, sorry if my comments about MCSO/DA & PPB were conflated with another’s perspective on tiny houses for the homeless. I think that scheme in Portland is brilliant and I hope it spreads to other towns. I have no yard big enough for a doghouse, but if I did there, I’d sign up. Unfirtunately these will be located I expect where there is much public transportation which leaves out with West side with big yards like Skyline and the affluent. And it will probably be as controversial as putting group homes for the mentally ill, past offenders and so on in those sorts of neighborhoods.
Misogeny is an institutional element pervading Portland leadership (excepting City Auditor office and likely Wheeler himself), and it infects the women too. That is, comfort with the culture that has tunnel vision on a stepmom. Kafoury is way too deferential to County male leadership llike Staton and Reese. I imagine the culture was baked into Smith while she was a 20 yr constituant aide to Wyden who probably took a lot of aide handholding. It is unfortunate the City Auditor plays no role with mcso.
OT Wyden’s last tweet: “Update: It passed. ….choose between internet access & their privacy #BroadbandPrivacy twitter.com/RonWyden/statu… ”
when my search hx is sold, there’ll be a lot of crime & Pacific NW. Blink’s won’t be pretty. I thot this was
already occurring in miniform. ie, I put search terms “black tights United” into Google. Almost immediately when I
went on search engines I rec’d targeted ads from vendors offering me the best in black tights.
ot don’t you think tho evie those given tiny houses must also be given a case mgr from a city office of homelessness
to walk them thru services (ie medicaid, food stamps), health care, mental health, drug txmt, job appls, or whatever they need to become stable? There was just an article I didn’t read about Syrian refugees in Canada finishing the govt’s one yr of case mgmt and the transition will be a test.
Evie
You are a compassionate person. I agree that there are probably as many as four groups of homeless people in the Portland area. Any program that attempts to provide aid to these people IMO should begin with those that are still a family, then work down the groups in an attempt to save some of them.
I grew up in the great depression. Good jobs were few and those without skills and an education suffered the most. However, families and the churches provided most of the help. Government programs didn’t exist.
Alcohol was probably the big contributor for some. There were some drugs around, but that affected just a very few. Not at all like today.
In 1940 my father made $1,500.00 for the year. We lived in a rented house that cost eighteen dollars a month with the electricity bill at $1.50 and natural gas for heat and cooking at $1.25 per month. Groceries for a family of five was five dollars per week. A large house (more than 1200 Sq.ft.)sold for $3,500.00. The minimum wage concept didn’t exist. The average pay for a weeks work in retail for six days was $7.00. People in management made more.
At age ten I mowed grass with a reel type push mower for twenty-five to fifty cents for a yard depending on its size. At age twelve I had an afternoon paper route and began working Saturdays and Sundays in an ice cream plant and retail store front. The pay waa fifteen cents an hour and the paper route produced seventy dollars a month.
Most people didn’t have a lot of money, but they were not poor. Just broke. Poor is a state of mind and limits the person’s ability to succeed. There are always jobs to be found if one looks hard enough.
Our government is the prime cause for the condition of the economy. County, city and school taxes push the price of housing beyond the ability of some to live in a community. They then have a choice of living hand to mouth or moving to another location where they can afford housing.
Yandell pictured professionally
about the time someone on Soldier’s
said he was the assigned relentless
aggressive detective iirc
https://m.facebook.com/orcops/photos/a.467830620062114.1073741829.400683946776782/509397199238789/
So mcso deputies go into classrooms working dirrctly with kids.
http://pamplinmedia.com/go/251435
I remember those fingerprint “science” lessons were in early el ed in my Cty.
Even Staton was principal for a day. I doubt these collaborations in the
classroom started with mcso in 2013. I’d like to know the history of mcso
in classroom lessons at Skyline c 2008-10.
Lol.
Found this looking for prior MCSO classroom activities. Skyline wasn’t always K-8.
snip>
On November 15, Portland School District Superintendent Vicki Phillips proposed a series of changes to city schools based on an annual review of enrollment and educational trends in Portland Public Schools. Under her proposal, Skyline Elementary, now serving students through fi fth grade, would expand by one grade each year until 2008-09, when it would be a K-8 school. The proposal was spurred by three factors: the proven success of K-8 as an educational model, interest from the Skyline families and staff, and the desire to lessen crowding at West Sylvan Middle School.
http://www.portlandsentinel.com/newspaper-archives/2005/12.05_Sentinel_24.pdf
ATG- I am always so humbled by your perspective. I have been commuting for my practice recently and my concourse station actually has a sponsored shelter for homeless people to get out of freezing temps at designated hours. My heart hurts for anyone in such a situation and I don’t claim to have an answer. I don’t think it is a surprise to anyone I am a security freak. I believe the issue of the type of help provided must provide for security of all persons first. As an example , Portland has some of the largest registered sex offender population with an allowable address designation as homeless. It is not the only state that allows it, but it’s definitely a seriously unmentioned problem. We have discussed some of those individuals here.
Today one of the more infamous homeless people I am aware of spit on a small child. She was arrested with $19k on her person. I want to be compassionate to anyone deserving, and I want to be helpful and pay it forward, but I believe very strongly proper vetting will be key to any potential planning or resolution. Had that been my child, or probably even if I just witnessed it, it would have taken half of NYPD precinct to get me off that woman. God forgive me as I am not proud of that – but again it is an example of danger in homelessness.
Thank You Christina
Because I actually lived in those times, I can give a prospective that those who didn’t cannot.
Crime was very little in those times. Yes, there were homeless people. Some were called hoboes who were mostly men that traveled the country by riding freight trains. Others were an organized group known as gypsies. These were Albanian immigrants who chose to live that life style. They were thieves who would steal anything that wasn’t secured.
They traveled in old cars and sometimes wagons. They would come to a community and camp on vacant land until LE forced them to leave.
Having been to Portland and witnessed the behavior of some of the people, I have to agree that security is precarious at best. Homeless people are forced to live in dangerous conditions. I did some research on Portland some years ago and found it to be one of the most dangerous cities in the country as reported in the period of 1890 to 1910.
Any state that allows sexual predators to live unsupervised as homeless people puts the entire population at risk. This is faulty government at work.
Sexual predators are everywhere. There are probably as many as two thousand registered in our sparsely populated county of roughly 75,000. In Texas, they are not at liberty to live in the homeless population.
Most of those who comprise the homeless populations are those with mental problems created by defects at birth or trauma early in life, major alcohol or drug problems, criminals who cannot secure normal work and a few families who simply are not able to care for themselves because they cannot find work.
I think your mention of the homeless woman who spit on the child and how you felt about it is a normal reaction. I probably would have slapped her hard enough to knock her to the ground. She probably has some mental condition that keeps her from behaving properly. A slap like that would be the same as punishing an animal who didn’t behave properly.
a standup Chief (and a standup Dad) tried to quell an irresponsible FB page:
“Irresponsible posting by those managing this page caused consternation and numerous baseless tips that wasted countless hours of investigators’ time,” said the chief. He said this occurred even after he asked them to stop posting information that had not been vetted by police to assure accuracy and maintain the integrity of the investigation.”
http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/03/dad_of_missing_york_county_gir.html#incart_river_mobile_home_pop
polar opposite approach to chiefs of mcso/da the last 7 years.
I wonder why they wanted countless hours of staff time spent on
baseless FB tips? Could it be the overtime pay like in 2010?
erose
The Grammar School and High School model is one from the 19th and early 20th centuries that was changed in the 1940′s as a result of adding a 12th grade to the school system in 1943/44. The Grammar School or Primary school was grades one through seven with the High School being grades eight through eleven. In the Grammar School, the student had the same teacher all day long.
The first changes were topping the Grammar School at grade six and creating a Junior High School with grades seven, eight and nine. The High School then had grades ten, eleven and twelve. The other model was a Grammar School with grades Kindergarten through five. A Middle School with grades six, seven and eight. A High School with grades nine through twelve.
In the 19th century small one-room schools with eight grades were the norm for small towns and rural communities. That was all the education available unless the town was within five or six miles of a large town who offered a High School with grades nine and ten.