How Public Schools Work

Hundreds of years ago most learning was done at home. Parents educate their children, or if their family can afford them, the private teacher will do the work. Puritan was the first in the country who pointed out the necessity of some sort of public education. They not only teach essentials - reading comprehension, composition, mathematics - but also built schools that strengthen their core values.

After the end of the American Revolutionary War, Thomas Jefferson thought that a new and independent country needed an educational system and proposed to use taxes to fund it. But his request was ignored and the idea of ​​the public school system shrank for nearly a century.

In the 1840 's, several public schools appeared in this country as affordable communities. But for Massachusetts state crusade Hoseman and Connecticut Henry Bernard, these few schools are not enough. They began offering free compulsory education schools to all the children in the country.

Massachusetts passed the first compulsory education law in 1852. In next year 's New York State, by 1918 all American children are obliged to attend at least elementary school.

Next, there is a campaign to create equal education for all American children regardless of their ethnicity. At the turn of the 20th century, southern schools and many northern schools were isolated. In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled that Pressy vs. Ferguson maintained apartheid's legitimacy. Finally, in 1954, the Supreme Court reversed the groundbreaking case open to all racial people Brown v. Board of Education decision.

Today's citizens may learn from idealism of the founders of public education. Public schools sometimes fail to meet expectations, but keeping the ideal range can make these schools do something. The answer is not to abolish public schools or abandon the ideal of teaching them for the second century. The answer to public schools is different. The answer is to encourage reforms that will help all schools achieve these ideals. Public schools must have accountability to citizens, but citizens also have to be accountable to public schools. By supporting public education, Americans can cooperate with local schools to show wisdom and compassion in decision making that affect schools, advocate a better, more fair public education and help children Can provide a good citizenship model for citizen education.

Okay, this is where there is our prejudice. Our children are in public school. We went to public school. We are volunteering at public schools. My wife works in a public school. Her mother works in a public school. Her grandparents work in a public school (her grandfather is the education chief). No one in my family went to private high school. We live in an area with excellent public schools. We strongly support public schools. In fact, in this recent election, the only sign we have in the garden is the bond sign of the parent school.

There is a good message for the corporate reform campaign. We are reformers. There is a solution. Public school failed. Public schools are declining. Public schools do not function. Public schools are obsolete and broken. We want to innovate. We know how to repair our school. We know how to narrow the gap of achievement. We are leading the civil rights movement of our time. I hope that there are excellent teachers in all classrooms. The size of the class does not matter. The higher the score of the student, the higher the reward of the teacher. If their students do not get a higher score they should be red. Teachers can defend bad teachers, so they should take away their qualifications and term of office. Bad teachers lead to gaps in achievement. A good teacher fills the gap of achievement. The teacher 's union is greedy and does not care about children. Pay attention to the poor just to excuse bad teachers and failed public schools. There is no solution. There is a solution