Public education and inequality

The reason for creating public school was to help out children's. They wanted public school to be trained for better jobs and American citizenship. Also to give opportunity to assimilate millions of immigrants.
The first problems of public schools were that they had strict rules and physical punishment made many students miserable.
The first school help families by offering childcare while the parents work. Also it took children out of the factories.
Schools perpetuate inequality by letting 62%  of white children go to elementary and 34% African-American went to elementary.
Some others issues schools had was children didn't want to replacing their native language for English. Also catholics didn't want to learn king James version of the bible so they made their own private school.

the first public schools that were made.
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