Posted on 03/11/2007 11:50:14 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
Sure it was. In the "Old Deluder Satan Law," officially called the Massachusetts Education Law of 1647 established a compulsory education system (every town with 50 families had to hire a teacher...
Even the entry from Wikipedia says that "As a practical matter this law did not require towns to have schools, as very few towns in the Massachusetts of 1647 had at least one hundred families, nor did it require young people to attend school."
My point is that compulsory attendance laws didn't take off until the great Irish immigration scares of the 1800s, when compulsory attendance laws were used to force the children of poor Irish Catholic immigrants into the Protestant government schools.
This is the history of the Know Nothings, and the Blaine amendments that were added to most state constitutions. The high point of the movement was reached in the late 1920s, with the SCOTUS case of KKK vs. Society of Sisters, where the Oregon KKK tried to outlaw private (i.e., Catholic) schools.
The model for these government schools, which were formed in the mid-1800s, was Prussian. Horace Mann praised these schools (which he never saw in operation) in his testimony before the Boston school board.
Industrialists like Carnegie and Rockefeller supported and further refined the Prussian model of schooling, because it produced compliant drones for industry. The advent of behavioral psychology at roughly the same time had a profound effect upon the teacher colleges that were being set up, thus dooming generations of children to educational "laboratories."
The history of compulsory schooling in America is uniformly bleak, from beginning to end.
The Collectivist Speaks - and redefines non-compliance with the State as impermissible deviance.
Bolshevik bullying and brainwashing, nothing more.
The evidence points to a causal relationship. Only someone willfully blind could miss the connection.
Leading Nazis, and early 1900 influential German biologists, revealed in their writings that Darwin’s theory and publications had a major influence upon Nazi race policies. Hitler believed that the human gene pool could be improved by using selective breeding similar to how farmers breed superior cattle strains. In the formulation of their racial policies, Hitler’s government relied heavily upon Darwinism, especially the elaborations by Spencer and Haeckel. As a result, a central policy of Hitler’s administration was the development and implementation of policies designed to protect the ‘superior race’.Darwinian beliefs were promulgated in the compulsory German schools.
SAT/ACT homeschoolers:
http://www.hslda.org/docs/news/hslda/200105070.asp
Standardized test scores homeschoolers:
http://www.hslda.org/docs/nche/000010/200410250.asp
objective instrument **or*** a portfolio of work
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Having submitted many portfolios, I testify that a portfolio is **not** mandatory testing.
Yeah I know it is higher than the average of the public school, but less than 100 points higher. The average SAT for public school kids was a 1019.
My public school kid got a 1410 with no prep on the verbal and about an hour of prep for the math - and that was while preparing for All States on her instrument, carrying 5 AP classes, volunteering 10 hours a week at the Free Clinic, and practicing 3 hours a day, 6 days a week for a varsity sports team.
Especially when these very same parents left the public school system..... I'm thinking few to none.
Same here, and I went to Catholic school.........
Actually it's politicians who make the decisions about public schools who do that at a higher rate than the rest of the population.........wonder why????
as a biological unit, I realize that there is always the possibility that abuse may occur. But this "nazi in robes" judge needs to realize that the state is no source of credible information and not just because it is New Jersey (although that in it's self is reason enough to be suspect of information) but the fact that NJ has a history of being anti-freedom.
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