The Common School Era:

 After reading the first section of the story of American Public Education, it gives in insight into how the schooling system started in the eighteenth century and how it began to blossom by the nineteenth century. Although schooling wasn’t much of a concern during the 18th century, parents still wanted their children to have the ability to read. Agriculture was the main concern and it how most made a living. They didn’t need an education to know how to farm and produce products for the community. The 18th century did have schooling but was were very limited and the school would be miles away. Schooling also wasn’t free and wasn’t opening to everyone. Only the Rich and White would be able to attend school. It wasn’t until the 19th century and the political leaders of that time were concern with the future generation. The next generation would be responsible for the future of democracy. They feared that if schooling wasn’t mandated then the next generation would ruin what they worked so hard to create. The 19th century became the next stepping stone into better public education. One that would include children no matter their social status and sex. Unfortunately, the problem of race was still a major problem: segregation. Whites and Black weren’t allowed in the same school. The government didn’t feel like the black’s need an education. They fought for their right to education, and although they got schooling they were not accepted into the white schools.

As part of this assignment, we need to choose one word, phrase, and sentence that would help us understand this part of the reading better. I ended up choosing Beecher as my one word.  “There is a snail-paced gait for the advance of new ideas” spoked by Thomas Jefferson as my phase. “Hindsight helps us look at the common school movement’s best impulses and its greatest failings and see them not as immutable but as experimental” as my sentence. They each described the major impacts that occurred during the public schooling movement. Beecher better known as Catharine Beecher became a very important influence in the movement. She was the first woman to advocate for women to be part of public schooling. She wanted women to step away from their families to become teachers during a time where there weren’t many teacher's let alone females in the workforce. I decided on Thomas Jefferson's statement because he was fighting for public schooling but kept getting denied by the Virginia assemblymen. Everything around them was getting approved for change, but schooling was still falling behind. As for my one-sentence, it made the perfect statement for what public schooling was. It was an experiment for something much greater; A lot of trial and error went into the common-school movement. After reading and discusses with my classmates about what they chose, we could all agree that what we picked can very much describe the section. One of my classmate's words related much to the issue of race in schooling as I couldn’t agree with her more. A large part of this section had to deal with race. 

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