Reflection paper 19: Trace of dames school to public school;

In the United States of America dames schools were first implemented by women to the teaching of reading, writing and computation in the homes of these women. This woman was known dame, she had an interest in education and was well respected in the community. She taught the lesson for a fee. In colonial times boys used apprenticeship programs as an educational tool. Here the boys would learn a trade from a master. Homemaking skills are high points of the female. This she would learn from their mother.
In colonial times the church was a major part of the classroom, where children had to learn the bible. Later the movement of the common school came into play. This school was ‘open to all’ with allowance of that era. This was the brain child of Horace Mann. Today the common school is known as the elementary school. Later the English Classical School came into being this was funded unhappily my Tax payers. It allowed girls to attend. This was the area of the secondary education. The school was later changed to The English School and then to Boys’ High School to accommodate just boys.
As far as public schools are today, church and religious involved activities are not taught in public high schools. Girls and boys are allowed in the public high schools. Blacks and other ethnic groups are races are by law allowed to attend. In colonial times different races were not allowed and it took major civil rights fights to get it to the point where it is today.