Ehtisham Tariq - Part 1 - the formation of schools and Common Schools(p. 1-60)

     In this week's class, we talked about schools and the Common Schools. As stated in the introduction of "School: The Story of American Public Education" by David Tyack, James D. Anderson, Larry Cuban, Carl F. Kaestle, Diane Ravitch, Sheila Curran Bernard, Sarah Mondale, and Meryl Streep, it states that "Schools are the most familiar of all civic institutions. You find them in city slums and leafy suburbs, Appalachian valleys and mining towns high in the Rockies." (Tyack et al, pg.1). What this means is that you see and find schools everywhere. Schools are everywhere you go. 

     Also, we talked about how education has changed overtime and how people view education to be. For example, nowadays everyone has a mindset that "you must have a bachelor's degree" to get somewhere in life. But that is not true. You can work a lot of jobs such as being an electrician with just a high school degree. You do not have to go to college to get a good job.

     Also, "The Common School", was created in the period between 1770-1900.(Tyack et al, pg. 9). "Common schools were funded by local property taxes, charged no tuition, were open to all white children, were governed by local school committees, and were subject to a modest amount of state regulation. They arose through two decades of debate prior to the Civil War in the Northeast and the Midwest of what is now the United States and, later in the nineteenth century, in the South and the West."(Tyack et al, pg. 11). Also, I agree with what is said in the book that "Perhaps one reason many Americans feel that we have lost our way in education is that we have forgotten where we have been."(Tyack et al, pg. 3). I really feel we do not look at education the way we used to.

     Furthermore, we also talked about how some professions are only looked at as professions for only one gender because you mostly see only one gender working that job. For example, mostly in hospitals you see only women as nurses. You do not see men as nurses most of the time. Another example would be cops. You do not see a lot of female cops. We basically talked about how education and schooling changed over time. 

     In addition, we talked about how the schooling system changed over time as well. We basically talked about the schooling system and how it changed over time. We also talked about what we feel needs to be changed with the schooling system while we were in small groups discussing our sentences/phrases/words. We talked about how we can change the schooling system. We heard opinions from fellow classmates. We talked about education is very different now from back then. Everything has changed a lot over time. 

     Lastly, I would like to say that we talked about schooling in America and even outside of America. A fellow classmate talked about schooling in Jamaica since she is from Jamaica and visits often. Her grandmother is a teacher in Jamaica and knows a lot about the school system in Jamaica.We got to learn of the schooling in America and what changed from then to now. We talked about how we can improve our schooling and what steps can we take to improve it. A lot has changed from then to now and we must know about this. This is because if we do not learn about this, we will not know how schooling changed over time. 

     In conclusion, we learned about the different types of schooling. We got to interact with each other. That was really fun. Plus, we got to learn about fellow classmates' opinions/experiences about schooling outside of America. We had a great time. 

https://www.google.com/search?q=School&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi959HSl7bdAhWkTt8KHYkcCRIQ_AUICygC&biw=1366&bih=662#imgrc=LNXZkuLOI6E1KM:

Meramec Valley RIII Schools - BSIP

                                                                               References

1. Mondale, S., Streep, M., Tyack, D., Anderson, J.D., Cuban, L., Kaestle, C.F., Ravitch, D., Bernard, S.C. (2001). School: The story of American public education. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.

2. https://www.google.com/search?q=School&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi959HSl7bdAhWkTt8KHYkcCRIQ_AUICygC&biw=1366&bih=662#imgrc=LNXZkuLOI6E1KM:

Meramec Valley RIII Schools - BSIP