Boarding School Droozy was sent to boarding school at age nine. This was a Jewish Day School since Jewish children were not permitted to attend the local public schools any http://www.jbuff.com/droozy/boarding_school.htm
Extractions: Droozy was sent to boarding school at age nine. This was a Jewish Day School since Jewish children were not permitted to attend the local public schools any more in Germany. You nasty brat, even here you had to follow me and spoil my fun. The grating shrill voice of sister was like music to Droozys lonely heart, and she exhaustedly fell asleep. The next day Fanny guided Droozy to the school principal to tell him that Droozy wanted to be sent home at once because of her intense loneliness. The principal comforted her and advised that there was no need to be lonely, as all of the students of the boarding school were being sent to a Fair, at which the School would be competing with other schools in races and games. This sounded very exciting and temporarily Droozy rejoiced. At least she would have the opportunity to ride with Fanny on the train to Stuttgart where the competition was to take place. When the children arrived at their destination, they were separated and placed with various families who were to be hosts for the three day Fair period. Although Droozy repeatedly telephoned sister Fanny, she eventually got used to her temporary quarters, since Susie, the hostess child, shared a room with her and talked with her for hours. At the Fair Droozy ran many races, hopped in a sack with her feet tied and ate nineteen bananas within a few minutes, becoming the banana eating champion of the day. The three days passed quickly and it was time to return to boarding school. Droozy waved farewell to her newly found friend and ascended the train which was headed for Niederstetten. The train was to pass through various small towns along the way, one of them being Droozys. When it slowed down in Crailsheim, Droozy hurriedly jumped off, leaving her suitcase behind. She ran all the way to her parents home. What a happy sight it was to see her parents and her brother again, never to return to the boarding school again!
Booker T. Washington's West Virginia Boyhood The west virginia Archives and History web site offers detailed Early Negro Education in west virginia, 31. 20. Teacher s Monthly School Report for the http://www.wvculture.org/history/journal_wvh/wvh32-1.html
Extractions: Booker T. Washington's West Virginia Boyhood By Louis R. Harlan Volume 32, Number 2 (January 1971), pp. 63-85 The slaves on the Burroughs' farm near Hate's Ford, Franklin County, Virginia, learned that they were free in the spring of 1865, but the slave cook Jane, her mulatto children John and Booker, and her black child Amanda, were still milling about the Burroughs' place three months later, searching for aims of their own to replace the purposes given to their lives by the master and mistress. Then from West Virginia came a message to solve their dilemma. Jane's husband, now calling himself Washington Ferguson but soon to lapse again into "Wash" or even "Uncle Wash," sent word that he was working for wages at the salt furnaces of the Kanawha Salines in West Virginia. He sent either a wagon or money to buy one, and about August 1865 Jane and her children set out from Hate's Ford to join him. The children were ready to skip and dance down Freedom Road. Just as they had never known the harshest aspects of slavery, they had no idea of the tedium and hardships of a mountain journey. Their mother, with palpitations of the heart as her legacy from toil for the Burroughs' comfort, found less joy in freedom and movement and perhaps none at all in the marriage bond, for there were to be no more children. She knew they needed a wagon. They secured a two-horse wagon, perhaps through money sent by Wash Ferguson. On it they loaded clothing, household goods, some coarse-ground corn, and Jane, whose health would not permit her to walk for any long period. Saying goodbye to their aged ex-mistress, who wished them well, the little family started out. The children walked most of the two hundred miles of the journey.
AEL Inc. students from their communities and forced them to attend boarding schools, Charleston, WV ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small schools. http://www.ael.org/page.htm?&id=502&pd=99&scope=ai&pub=x
West Nottingham Academy at the west Nottingham congregation and established a school there. The school prepared boys for university study, and many of his pupils became leading http://www.wna.org/NewWebPage/webimages/subpages/aboutwna.htm
Extractions: 410-658-5556 Fax 410-658-6790 History In 1744, Samuel Finley, a young Presbyterian minister from Ireland, received his first permanent placement at the West Nottingham congregation and established a school there. The school prepared boys for university study, and many of his pupils became leading ministers, doctors, and lawyers in colonial and the newly independent America. Two graduates, Benjamin Rush and Richard Stockton, signed the Declaration of Independence. In addition to teaching the classics, mathematics, logic, and the sciences, Samuel Finley sought to develop the character of his students as well. "Seek to have the temper of your mind so framed, that you may be ready for all variety of conditions; as ready to obey as to command; to forgive injuries, as to ask forgiveness; to be despised, as well as to be honorable; and to be poor, as well as rich. . . . There is more delight in possessing one's own soul, than in being lord of this earth." More than 250 years later, West Nottingham Academy continues in this tradition of preparing young people for university study, strengthening minds, bodies, and character.
