> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:38 PM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The first public education in the US was for the ex-slaves in the late
>> 1800's. When public education was won for them it was extended and won
>> for the whole working class...
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> Um, CB, you live in MI, the home of one of the two foundational land grant
> universities - chartered as such in the 1860s... and very definitely not for
> ex-slaves.
>
> Do I take it that you are talking about public primary and secondary
> education? If so, I have vague recollections of early public ed at that
> level in New England before the late 19th C (but I could surely be wrong).
>
Yeah. Mass public ed started in Massachusetts in the 1830's or 1840's as an elite project to civilize and render more docile the Irish working class. And it's a good thing too.
SA