Post B

The Kalamazoo decision was a result of a community to pay higher taxes to maintain a free high school education. This decision was made by the School Board of Kalamazoo Michigan. A citizen of Kalamazoo decided to take legal action to prevent the taxation. This case was taken to the Supreme Court in Michigan, the decision was that taxes were allowed to be charged and also that some of this money went to pay the superintendent. The citizens of the community would vote if they wanted taxes raised for free education.
Kalamazoo Michigan was the beginning of a free higher education. At first Kalamazoo was just known as a common school where kids would just go for a few grades and then would have to take on adult roles such as motherhood or start working. In the 1800’s there wasn’t a real need for people to be educated because back then we didn’t have technology like we do know, and everything you needed to know you learned from experience, or just from what everyone else was doing. The girls learned to become mothers from experience and from what they saw or learned when they were little, and the same thing with keeping up with the house. They knew it had to be done, and they learned how to do it by starting at a young age cleaning and cooking. The men however worked usually in fields all day or went hunting for food. Men learned this mostly from their fathers who would take them out on trips to learn how to hunt so one day they could take care of their own families.
In Michigan in 1859 Legislature passed a law saying that schools with more than 200 school aged children needed to elect school boards to oversee the schools. The school boards had control over the schools and had a say over everything that was done, they also had control over the school funds which would be funded by the taxes, if the tax payers voted in favor of the proposal. Kalamazoo opened its first high school in 1858. This establishment was a bridge between common schools to the universities. It was a step in between instead of a big gap from common school then to university if you chose to go in that direction. This school was kept running until 1873. That year three citizens of Kalamazoo who were property owners filed a suit intending to prevent the school board from funding the high school with tax money. The citizens argued that the law had been permitted without the vote of the citizens or rather the taxpayers. They were upset because they had been forced to pay this extra money and did not have a say on whether it was a good decision or not.
These three men felt that it was important to take taxes out to pay for the common schools, but anything higher should be paid privately either by the student or their families. The decision was made in favor of the school and tax payers had to pay for the schools an education.

http://www.fullbooks.com/THE-HISTORY-OF-EDUCATION13.html

http://www.kpl.gov/collections/localhistory/allabout/education/SchoolCase.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamazoo_College

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0036-6773(193404)42%3A4%3C255%3ATHQBTC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U

http://books.google.com/books?id=_KAcAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA587&lpg=PA587&dq=kalamazoo+decision&source=web&ots=8ACVil43cs&sig=_hYYK6HzmMyA3oITTMRCJmJ7BeM

Post A(my informal education)

One thing I have learned outside of school is never to hold grudges. We had a family incident that changed my anger and how I handle it. I use to just keep to myself figuring this would all pass, and maybe someday I would confront this person and explain why I had so much anger and resent. This is no longer possible and will stick with me forever that I cannot explain to them why I was hurt this way and why they made me angry, they could only assume what bothered me and I was too afraid to speak up. All I know is that when you’re given a situation that you know is going to hurt you later you need to speak up and say something before you miss your chance and it is gone.
Another thing I have learned is that being a twin actually has its positives. I have a twin and when we were little we did absolutely everything in the whole world together, yes everything. As you can imagine this got tiring after many years, imagine having someone there always there with you, sleep in the same room, go to the same school, same dinner time, same homework(that actually is a plus!), same classes, and same friends. Sounds awesome at first doesn’t it? Well yeah I would say so too except its annoying having someone around you all the time, it feels almost like you have no room to breathe. I must say though we are the best of friends, we would play together all the time when we were younger and we obviously have our own set of inside jokes. We don’t always agree on everything one another does, but at the heart support it. I just remember fighting with her so often when we were younger and having someone yell at us only to say that we would be best friends when we got older, yep this would only infuriate us more. All in all I must say that having a twin does have its advantages, I know she is always there for me. Probably having this distance between colleges is helping our bond because I don’t see her everyday it’s just one less annoyance I have :). Haha.
The third lesson that I have learned is that I love kids! Which you can obviously understand why I am going into this profession. At home I have a job with the aftercare program and the summer day camp program, at times it is stressful but then you have the silly comments that make you laugh harder than you thought you could. These kids totally make my day, I love having that interacting with them learning so much about them and their capabilities. I do believe that my little sister and little brother whom is 3, and 5 gave me the inspiration to become a teacher. My little sister has already made up her mind she wants to be a teacher and go to college just like me, quite cute. This little girl has given me so much inspiration to do well and be successful that I can only thank her, for she helps me push myself so that I do well and achieve success. My little brother now, he gives me the challenges with kids I know I will soon see in the classroom he is quite adorable yet has a menace side to him which I am sure every little boy does. I love them both and could not image where I would be today without them!

First Day trial

Hello I am trying a blog for the first time.....