When was the Federal Department of Education founded, o bright one?
It wasn't too long ago that there even STATE funding didn't exist for schools.
There's no Constititional mandate for Federal Education, and there's absolutely NO reason that we can't abolish all public education, either.
Have at it, O Legion of Anarchist. Be sure to paint the Moon purple while you're at it, too.
There's no Constititional mandate for Federal Education, and there's absolutely NO reason that we can't abolish all public education, either. ++
I hate to say it as a homeschooler, but there appears there is more of a mandate and precedence for publicly funded education--back as far as the early 1800's then there is for two men to have anal sex. And this is just a quick search I found, but there is a lot more detailed info out there that I've researched before. Public education, from all I have gathered, was seen as a ministry to those at it's roots(not the Horace Mann's and Dewey, but the original supporters) and was intended to strengthen the moral fiber of the US and unfortunately it was twisted to it's current condition because of a whole lot of anti-Catholic bigotry(our forefathers really reeped their sins to us protestants for their bigotry).
Education History A Timeline of Public Education in America Public education in the United States has an interesting history beginning with the nation's first public school in Boston. Public education has long been intertwined with the social and economic history of the country. Set forth below is a timeline of significant events in the history of public education in the United States. 1635 The Boston Latin School, the first publicly funded secondary school in America, and the oldest educational institution in the country, opens. Some notable figures in history who attended this school include: Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock and Samuel Adams. 1779 Thomas Jefferson argued for universal taxpayer funded public education at the basic level. While he was unsuccessful at this time, his influence was apparent in later years.
1837 Horace Mann becomes the first secretary of education in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He travels the state on horseback advocating for a system of "common schools." Under his leadership, the legislature provided funds to localities to open the schools. These common schools provided a standardized curriculum at the elementary level and were the precursors to today's public school system.
1849 Henry Barnard creates a system of common schools in Connecticut.
1852 The Massachusetts legislature enacts the first compulsory education law requiring every child to get an education.
1853 New York follows the lead of Massachusetts and passes its own compulsory education law.
5 By the end of the Civil War, most state constitutions guaranteed public support for public education.
1874 Michigan Supreme Court rules that communities could use local property taxes to fund secondary schools.
It seems as though what is really recent is the acceptance of sodomy in our society and laws. In fact the definition of sodomy was even broader than it is now back in the 1600's.
The proscription of sodomy in the English tradition began in 1533 when King Henry VIII adopted contemporary church doctrine into a system of laws at the time of the English withdrawal from the Catholic Church. Sodomy became both a sin and a crime, since ecclesiastical law recognizes no distinction between the concepts of "sin" and "crime." Sodomy included any form of non-procreative acts including masturbation, oral and anal sex.
The original thirteen American colonies derived their laws from the English common law and continued the legal tradition in which sodomy carried the penalty of death.
The 1683 Pennsylvania law called sodomy an "unnatural sin" and the East New Jersey law listed it among the "Offenses against God."
Every state adopted some form of a sodomy law as it joined the United States, either in acceptance of an unwritten common law or in formal codification. A slow modernization of laws away from a religious doctrine into a secular system reduced penalties over time in a piece meal fashion. All states had laws against sodomy by 1960.
The 1955 edition of the American Law Institute’s model penal code omitted sodomy laws for the first time. In 1961, the Illinois legislature revised their criminal code without prohibiting sodomy. The law went into effect in 1962 without fanfare ________________
I of course hold my own opinions, but you sir are talking out of your behind if you say that there is no mandate or precedence for public education, yet there is one for anal sex. History will prove that you are very mixed up on the subjects.