Public education mandated (sort of) in Massachusetts
Posted: 14 April 2008 09:07 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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Posted: 14 April 2008 10:49 AM   [ Ignore ]  [ # 1 ]

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”...in 1642, Massachusetts Bay Colony passed the first law in the New World requiring that children be taught to read and write. The English Puritans who founded Massachusetts believed that the well-being of individuals, along with the success of the colony, depended on a people literate enough to read both the Bible and the laws of the land. Concerned that parents were ignoring the first law, in 1647 Massachusetts passed another one requiring that all towns establish and maintain public schools. It would be many years before these schools were open to all children. Only in the mid-nineteenth century was universal free public schooling guaranteed – in time, made compulsory — for Massachusetts children.”

Gosh, I’d welcome a law requiring that all students be able to read the Bible in english and the laws of the land, including the Constitution.  Nowadays, relatively few students can do either.

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