Students slow to visit historic schoolhouse

Carroll County, MD - Not one Carroll school has visited the Historic Sykesville Colored Schoolhouse since it reopened six months ago as a museum.
“It’s surprising,” said Minnie Dorsey, a Sykesville resident who graduated from the century-old, one-room school off Schoolhouse Road in 1935.
Since the school’s September dedication, Baltimore City students have taken tours to see the authentic desks and textbooks, but those from Carroll schools haven’t, even though Carroll school administrators helped write the museum’s curriculum, said Patricia Greenwald, a retired Howard County teacher who volunteers as a curator. Read on.