Some students had a hard time from the teachers others went on to become teachers themselves. Alma Goudie was one of them. She tells us about her school days in Capstan Island: "I don’t mind talking about my school days… Because they were happy days... It was only a one room school and it was… built by free labor, the men of the community, and it was always kept clean... the women of the community, they cleaned the school like they cleaned their house."