Seating charts?! They didn't need no stinking seating charts!
In 1960, I started first grade at a rural Georgia school that held grades first through twelfth. Most of the teachers were hired as replacements for the men who went off to fight in WWII. They had two year teaching degrees from teaching colleges in the 1940's and had been grandfathered in their positions so that they held their jobs until retirement. Back then, there was no requirement to take continuing education or validate credentials. My third grade teacher was the only exception. Miss Mary Wilkerson had a real degree from a university and was by far the best elementary teacher at the school.
I only learned this many years later when my parents moved back to the community. My mother had gotten her teaching credentials in 1972, then an M.Ed. in 1976 and joined the faculty at the same school. By then, the school was no longer first through twelfth grades and had finally stepped into the twentieth century, albeit still some decades behind metropolitan schools. Several years ago a new school was built down the road and just last year, all of the old school buildings were leveled to the ground.
Now you can stop guessing.
That’s ok; I had already stopped.