Chapter 5: The History of Schools in the United States

In the colonial times school was used to teach religion. They taught the morals of the Puritans and Protestant. The schools were mostly Latin grammar school for children that were rich. In the 1800’s schools were opened to everyone not just the rich and they started to focus on morals and patriotism. By the end of the 19^th century high schools started to emerge then in 1910 the first junior high School was born. In colonial schools they focused on reading writing and arithmetic. Also most of the colonial schools were all white children.

            The debates were not what you would think when talking about schools now a day. The debate in colonial time on education was on the purpose of education how it helps individuals. In the 1950’s the debates were by the religious groups about the teaching of sciences. The next debate was race segregation in school and by the mid 1990’s the race barrier was broken.