Book Description

From our earliest days to the present, education remains vital to our survival. The need to pass on information pertinent to the society in which we live is paramount, but the manner in which we educate, and the information we pass on, has changed over time.The History of Education on the Old Mission Peninsula is the recording of educational practices through-out time on a lush peninsula that extends eighteen miles into the Grand Traverse Bay in Northwestern Michigan. Educational practices, very similar to those practiced across our developing nation, are discussed in conjunction with the history of the era in which they took place, the politics of the times, and the current life requirements.We begin in the 1740's with the tribal educational systems of the Odawa and Ojibwa Native Americans, followed by the Presbyterian evangelical movement of the 1840's, lead on the Old Mission Peninsula, by Peter Dougherty. A school held on a schooner, in a private residence, a barn, and abandoned log cabin follows. Explore the seven one-room schoolhouses on the peninsula and read accounts of former students. Next, learn about the consolidation of schools, government interruption, TCAPS rejection, and finally the evolution of a charter school, the Old Mission Peninsula School.Follow education's path, here on the Old Mission Peninsula. Will this past be a predictor of the future? Only time will tell.