LAKELAND GOES TO SCHOOL

Lakeland High School, class of 1917

Students in Lakeland, and all across Polk County, will be returning to the classroom this month, just as their parents and grandparents did before them. The names and locations of the schools have changed in some instances.  Some students, however, such as those attending the Dixieland School, will be sitting in the same classrooms as their parents and grandparents did.  The curriculum has changed fundamentally since the grandparents, and even the parents, of today's students attended. 

What has not changed, however, is the ritual of the opening of schools every year.  What has not changed are the classrooms, the activities, the football games, and the pomp and circumstance of graduation.

Click on the links to the left to see what "back to school" meant to  earlier generations of Lakeland residents.