Laura was a teenager when she started teaching at the school in Perry but before she needed to have a teacher's examination. At the end of the examination, the teacher corrected her paper and she passed. On the paper she got a "Second Grade" which means she passed. She is getting paid twenty-five dollars for three months. When the little school house was built, she started teaching in April. She is going to teach for three months; April, May, and June. She taught three pupils in the school in Perry.