Makarantar Clyde

An kafa makarantar Clyde a matsayin makarantar 'yan mata masu zaman kansu a shekarar 1910 a Alma Road, St Kilda, Victoria, Ostiraliya, ta hannun Isabel Henderson, fitacciyar mai ilimi a zamaninta. Nan da nan ta sami suna saboda kyakkyawan sakamako na ilimi. An mayar da makarantar zuwa Macedon, kusa da Hanging Rock a shekarar 1919.

 Makarantar Clyde a Woodend 
Saboda waɗanda suka kafa makarantar, makarantar ta yi daidai da ƙungiyoyin Presbyterian da Anglican a wannan lokacin  kuma ta faɗaɗa cikin sauri. A shekarar 1917, ta sami 'yan mata kusan 200 da suka mamaye gine-gine biyar. Wani ɓangare na rage cunkoson jama'a amma musamman don ƙirƙirar yanayi na ilimi wanda ba ya ɗauke da abubuwan da ke janye hankali daga Melbourne bayan yaƙin basasa, Isabel Henderson ta yanke shawarar ƙaura da makarantar. A watan Satumba na 1918, ta sayi tsohon wurin shakatawa na golf na dutse, Braemar House, kusa da Woodend, sannan ta mayar da makarantarta zuwa can a shekarar 1919. A shekarar 1921, Clyde Woodend ta zama makarantar gwamnati bayan wani gagarumin yaƙin neman kuɗi da wasu tsofaffin 'yan mata suka yi. A shekarar da ta biyo baya, Isabel Henderson ta yi ritaya zuwa Ingila kuma Dorothy Tucker, malamar kimiyyar gida daga New Zealand, ta zama shugabar makaranta.

Duk da cewa Tucker ba ta da kwarjini kamar wanda ya gabace ta, ta ci gaba da zama makarantar kwana mai tsari da ra'ayin mazan jiya. Rijistar ɗalibai ta ƙaru cikin sauri a shekarun 1920 amma Babban Matsalar Tattalin Arziki ya sa alkaluma suka faɗi. Tsanani da tsarin rage farashi da kuma tsarin mulki mai tsauri sun tabbatar da dorewar makarantar lokacin da wasu makarantu da yawa suka rufe. Gwagwarmayar ta yi tasiri ga Dorothy Tucker wacce ta fuskanci rugujewar hankali a shekarar 1935. Bayan ɗan gajeren lokaci a ƙarƙashin Helen Mathieson, makarantar ta naɗa Olga Hay, wacce ta kasance ɗalibi kuma tsohuwar abokiyar iyali ga Isabel Henderson, a matsayin shugabar makaranta a shekarar 1937.

Olga Hay, wacce ta samu rinjaye sosai daga mai ba ta shawara kan harkokin gaba Isabel Henderson, ta fara aikinta da sabbin kirkire-kirkire. Duk da haka, bayan mutuwar Henderson a shekarar 1940, gwamnatin Olga Hay ta zama mai ra'ayin mazan jiya. A shekarun 1940 da 1950, makarantar Clyde ta sami suna a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin makarantu mafi daraja (kuma masu tsada) a Ostiraliya, kodayake ba a san ta da babban ci gaba a fannin ilimi ba. A lokacin da ta yi ritaya a shekarar 1959, Olga Hay ta kawo babban nasara a fannin tattalin arziki da kwanciyar hankali ga makarantar.

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