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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Presidents Island One Room Schoolhouse




Memphis East High School is planning to move a one room school house that was once located on Presidents Island. This one room school house was a sharecropping school that had one teacher and at least 40 to 50 students, grades 1 through 8.

Our purpose is to turn this one room school house into a walk through museum on the grounds of East High School. The museum will serve as a commemoration to Sharecropper Schools, Plessy V. Ferguson, Freedmen's Burreau School, and Brown V. Board of Education.


Question of the week:
Why Should we save the one room schoolhouse?

39 comments:

  1. I think we should save the school house because we are preserving history.

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  2. I believe that we should save this on room schoolhouse inorder to preserve the history of education...

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  3. i think we should save this school because we need to say a part of out history so we want for get where we ca from and where we are going

    TIARA PAYNE

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  4. I think this is an example of how education has envolve over the years.

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  5. To provide others with the historical background of the school and its significance to the education that we have now.

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  6. The students are gaining an incredible amount of knowledge with this project.This is an ongoing project that has created collaboration with many different groups in the Memphis community.By saving relocating, renovating, and finding an adaptive reuse the students will be impowered to make this community a better place.
    -Mark Scott

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  7. I believe that we should save the schoolhouse because it shows how far we have come in education and as a school.

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  8. I believe we should save the school house because its important in recognizing our past as African American students and realizing our future is brighter than we previously thought.

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  9. I believe that this one room school house is a very important project that shows the history and uniqueness of todays education.

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  10. i believe it is important because history should always be kept around.it can be helpful in teaching others that come behind us

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  11. Its important because if we dont know our past our future will always be blurry...

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  12. I think that the Presidents Island is very important to the urban life of today. We are influenced by the objectives of this school setup. I think we dont really focus on the ideas of this school but the overall sanitation. Thats why i think Presidents Island is so important for today life.

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  13. THE PRESIDENT'S ISLAND SCHOOL HOUSE IS AN IMPORTANT ARTIFACT TO HISTORY. PEOPLE NEED TO SEE HOW FAR SCHOOLS HAVE COME. IT IS A TESTIMONY TO THE STRUGGLE BLACKS HAD DURING SEGREGATED TIMES. IF WE DON'T SAVE THIS BUILDING KIDS FROM GENERATIONS ON DOWN WILL NOT HAVE THE OPPURTUNITY TO SUCH AN IMPORTANT PART OF HISTORY. KEEP THE HISTORY ALIVE EAST HIGH. MARKESHA STONE

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  14. Saving the school house would preserve history that us young people need to know and learn about the education that was hard to get and compare to what it is now

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  15. I think this would be a great idea! This would preserve and educate us about the history of education back in the day. So moving the school house to East High would benefit more than us the students but all of the African American race.

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  16. I think that it is great that we are trying to save a historic building and show how far we have come in education.

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  17. It's going to be historical and its going to make the school stand out with integrity.

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  18. Saving the school house is important because it shows how far we have come in education. It is part of our history and it will benefit African Americans.

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  19. I think that saving this school house is a positive and smart thing to do that would benefit the African American Community. I hope this plan does go through to the end because it would honor our legacy at East High.

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  20. I THINK THATS GOOD THAT EAST HIGH SCHOOL TRYING TO.SAVE THE PRESIDENT ISLAND SCHOOL THAT SHOW OUR AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORICAL FACT ABOUT THE SCHOOL HOUSE.IT'S ALSO BENEFIT ON OUR AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY TO SEE IT SAVE.I'M REAL HORON THAT EAST HIGH SCHOOL IS SAVE WONDERFUL HISTORICAL HOUSE.

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  21. I think we should save the one room school house because it will show our younger generation how far we have come and what outcome can take place just by an idea and some help

    `Eboney Johnson

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  22. HI there Jody here, i was reasding the article and its is very interesting the school house does have alot of history behind it and its really hard trying to find saved history since the goverment likes to tear everything they touch down and rebuild. The school house is a sign of intergity, what black students 1 through 8th had to go through and we should always remember that so that it will never happen again, so my answer is yes its an brilliant idea to move the school to a public high school. it will be a wonderful experience for the children :)

    -Jody L Spears Jr.

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  23. Its important to save the one room school house its a part of memphis history and its being student lead!!! NOT BY ANY TEACHERS:)

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  24. The one room school house is a monumental structure that represents the hardship that African Americans went through to get an education in America.

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  25. I think saving the one room school house is such a great thing to accomplish as a goal for students who want to get involved in this awesome experience!!!

    Sherita Worles 3rd Block

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  26. I think we should keep the one room school so we can actually see how far we have came in our history education from a one room school to a huge school with over twenty-five rooms....

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  27. We should save the one room school house because it reminds us of what use to be, and it also shows how thankful and blessed our new generation is.

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  28. I belive that by saving the one room school house we are holding on to a beatiful part of history which had an great effect on later education.

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  29. christain tr3
    Even through i dislike this project and tink it is useless, There are some good things that can come out of it that i can not deny. Such as making a musume that we could use. Also, it can send a message, in the words of my english teacher "i can do any thing all i have to do is try.

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  30. camara grandberry
    i think we should keep this one room school house because like you said mr.scott it bring back alot of memory form the days when our great grand mothers might was at that school or any other one room school. so i would like to keep it and show some love to all the one room school houses.

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  31. i think we should save the school house because it will help people remember how segregation was in the past. this will hopefully make sure we never go bck to that way of life again. - jhmarkus simpson

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  32. i think we should save the one room school house because it would show our east high students how students back then learned with only a miniunm of desks & explain how there was younger kids in the same class room trying to learn as well. also this would want people to do better and want better, not wanting the past to comme back

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  33. i think saving the schoolhouse is a great idea. people will understand how students back then had to learn with different student in different grades. also, this will help us understand how the school system has evolved over time.

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  34. i think that this school house is a great part of history... i will remember this for the rest of my life

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  35. I think we should save the schoolhouse because is a great way to tell I appreciate the past.

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  36. Antonio Tillison
    I think we should have the honor of the school because just acknowleding and wanting to make a change to something that was destroyed and rebuilding its legacy is a perfect reason to want any participation of this great event

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  37. I believe that our room school house is apart of history.

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  38. One Room school house rules NBLB (No Building left behind)

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