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Re: Group Demands Corrections Before Texas Adopts 'Distorted' Textbooks

Posted by Dave on Sun Sep 14 18:27:44 2014, in response to Re: Group Demands Corrections Before Texas Adopts 'Distorted' Textbooks, posted by Olog-hai on Sun Sep 14 13:22:48 2014.

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False. All false. Before the 1840s, all education was private in the USA.

Get your facts straight, Olog. The first public school in the U.S. was Boston Latin, opened in 1635. The first tax-supported public school was in Dedham, MA. All the New England colonies required towns to set up schools, and many did so. In 1821, Boston started the first public high school in the United States.

After the American Revolution, Georgia and South Carolina funded public universities. In Georgia public county academies became more common, and after 1811 South Carolina opened free "common schools" for reading, writing and arithmetic. Southern states established public school systems under Reconstruction biracial governments.

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