The Evolution of the Massachusetts Public School System; a Historical Sketch
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The new law followed the old in graduating its requirements to the population of the towns. Towns having fifty families must furnish each year six months' schooling by a master; this might be in one school or many ; for the larger towns a longer aggregate time was prescribed. These were English schools. Besides these, towns of two hundred families must support a grammar schoolmaster. The older' school law had required instruction only in reading and writing; the new law prescribed reading, writ...- ing, the English language, orthography, arith- metic, and decent behavior. Except by special / direction of the selectmen, no youth might be sent to the grammar school unless they had_ learned elsewhere to read. The masters of all these schools must be grad- uates of some college or university, or they must produce a certificate of qualification from a learned minister of the town or neighborhood; * Laws of Massachusetts, 1789, June 35th. 84 MASSACHUSETTS PUBLIC-SCHOOL SYSTEM. , and, besides, they must produce a certificate of ' moral character from a minister or from a select- , man of their own town.
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