Massachusetts Public School System (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Massachusetts Public School System

The system of public education in Massachusetts is characterized by a maximum of local independence with a minimum of central control.

The efforts of the state are directed toward stimulating, directing and supplementing local activity. Its legislation in the main follows local public sentiment and embodies current local practices. Many of its requirements are mandatory upon a part of the municipalities and permissive to most of them. The following outline indicates chronologically the successive steps in the development of the system.

The chosen men appointed for managing the prudential affairs of towns charged by the General Court with the duty of requiring parents and masters to train their children in learning and labor and other employments which may be profitable to the Commonwealth.

The school system formally established by the General Court. Reading and writing schools required; also grammar schools. Expense to be borne by the towns or the parents or both at their pleasure.

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