Why do students give teachers apples?
simple the teachers of the early days in the mid-west and the west were partly paid by a free room in a house and the people around gave the teacher pigs and chickens and fruits and vegetables and canned foods in jars along with their small salary and people added free services like the town doctor would treat them for free it was common for people to not exchange money but goods or services that’s called barter so an apple to a teacher was a part of a promise of support from the childre’s’ parents and a way to help the teacher eat that day,,, It’s like a tradition!
