What is a normal school?
"Common School" was the name used for a public school in the United States and Canada at the end of the 19th century. Unlike modern public school, the joint school was financed and managed. Common schools were developed to provide all secular education to all children, regardless of socio -economic status, gender, religion or national origin, and participation was compulsory until the eighth year.
Before establishing a joint school, education of children was generally considered to be the responsibility of family and religious institutions. Individual communities have established public schools in the middle of the 17th century, but were usually not free and focused more on teaching basic literacy than formal education. Most children were taught at home with private lecturers, private schools or not at all. Families tended not to raise girls and rich, urban children had much greater access to education than poor rural children. African-American and Native-American Children were rarely educated, although severalIK communities had charity schools, which were financed by churches and private donors.
After the US Revolution, premature attempts to demonstrate secular public education failed due to the increase in taxes that would be necessary to finance it. People were also wary of the increased amount of federal control in decisions that were traditionally accepted by families and communities. In the 1840s of the 20th century, the idea that all children were to have equal access to education began to grow in popularity, especially in the northern and Midwest States. Until the age of 20, most of the US and Canadian provinces have adopted laws on current schools and compulsory public education.
The idea of an ordinary school was not just that it should be free and secular, but that there should be a certain number of standardization of curriculum and UNANG practices. With a large number of immigrants who at that time vsThey are dulling to the US and Canada, the importance of assimilation and teaching of children has been emphasized by common culture and value. The Roman Catholics and the indigenous groups in both countries often have a hard -to -comply compulsory participation in joint schools, because Protestant morality and ethics were often a focus of joint school education and the Bible of King James.
Thecommunity and local inspection were the central point of joint schools, but the state -ordered standardization was increasingly necessary to provide all schools with the same quality of education. At the beginning of the 20th century, education became more and more federal and the state, with most local districts and school districts voted to integrate into larger districts.