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    1. st.ephan.yy 25 Jun 2025
      he proposed to the state legislature that Catholic schools become part of the state school system while retaining their private charters and religious affiliation. As historian Vincent Lannie writes, "Seward urged the establishment of schools that would be acceptable to this minority group and staffed with teachers who spoke the same language and professed the same religious faith as their pupils. Such schools would be administered by Catholic officials but supported with public funds.

      I wonder if a majority of these schools were free or were they schools that had families pay for religious education. - Although religious education seems ideal for families with the same beliefs as the school. Was material being removed or altered to fit the need/desires of these families? If so was the public aware since these schools were being supported by public funds.

    2. st.ephan.yy 25 Jun 2025
      Protestant Anglo-Saxons feared that the "drunken Irish," acting mainly out of "passion" rather than reason, might destroy the American dream

      Why can't passion be related to reasoning? Why must society diminishing passion because it does not relate to "reason" and the destruction of the American Dream? Was this the foundation of the creation of education? -- We continue to see these thoughts still in our society now.

    3. st.ephan.yy 25 Jun 2025
      The reader can see from Table 5.1 that immigration almost quadrupled between the decades 1820-1830 (151,824 immigrants) and 1831-1840 (599,125 immigrants). During the 1820-1830 period the majority of immigrants still came from England (about 59 percent). But this dramatically changed in 18 31-1840 with the increase in German immigration to 25.4 percent of the total immigration, reducing the number of immigrants from England to about 39 percent.

      Immigration quadrupled, making Europeans the majority of immigrants. After 1830 (a year after immigration increases drastically), did this bring a high number of germans to immigrants which also increased anxiety about multiculturalism? The table stated the united states had a 100% increase in immigration.

    4. st.ephan.yy 25 Jun 2025
      the increasing diversity of the U.S. population during the development and expansion of public schools from the 1830s to the 1850s. It is possible, but not necessarily provable, that public schools expanded in order to create a common culture and language.

      By common culture does that mean they were all seeking education opportunity? Is this the similarity that all cultures had in common? The thrive for a higher education.

    5. st.ephan.yy 25 Jun 2025
      Discriminated against by the English, Irish Catholics threatened Protestant domination of American culture. The growth of public schools paralleled the growth of the immigrant and enslaved populations.

      Could this be because others were seeking educational opportunities for there children? - Although we also see there is an increase in enslaved populations, it makes me wonder how other immigrant individuals were able to obtain education in a white dominated scene? Or did the growth of immigrants correlate with the growth of the enslaved?

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      Unless the Co1nmon Schools can be made to edu-cate the whole people, the poor as well as the rich, they are not worthy of the support of the patriot or the philanthropist." "Give to education ... a clear field and fair play," said a recent immigrant in A Treatise on American Popular Education in 1839, "and your poor houses, lazarettos, and hospitals will stand empty, your prisons and penitentiaries will lack inmates, and the whole coun-try will be filled with wise, industrious, and happy inhabitants.

      Once again this reminds me of the class discussion of 'what should schools be teaching?' It once again revolves around creating good moral citizens because educated students lead to doctors, lawyers, teachers, etc. Having more students go to a profession keeps more families out of poverty and prisons too. Seems like the key to success begins with an education.

    2. st.ephan.yy 25 Jun 2025
      1 think that no such thing as charities should be insti-tuted for the instruction of youth," wrote one articulate worker in the Me-chanics' Free Press in Philadelphia in 1828. He favored free schools dependent not on "private charities" but "founded and supported by the government it-self.

      As mentioned earlier in the article, the stigma that followed free schools was that these schools were not as advance or educational as institutions that required a fee. It is important to point out that ending this stigma for free schools or public schools would allow more support from communities and more families accepting education for their children without feeling embarrassed or wondering if it is enough for their child.

    3. st.ephan.yy 25 Jun 2025
      Progressive citizens throughout New England, he said, wanted to perfect the schools and affirm their centrality in shaping the character, morals, and intelligence of the rising generation.

      This reminds me of our class discussion on Monday where we had to think on what schools should be teaching students. It appears that those in New England believed "perfecting schools" meant having individuals with morals and intelligence. This makes me wonder on the history of schooling in New England and whether their history has anything to do with their ideas on education being taught.

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