who invented public school system and who made it where kids have to go to school?

Answer 1

Until about 50 years ago, no effort was made to bring ALL children to graduation. You can still meet plenty of older people who only have a 3rd, 6th or 8th grade education level. Kids attended school until either their parents needed them to get a job to help support the family, or until they (and their teachers) became frustrated enough to quit.

Then compulsory (all kids have to go) attendance started, along with the child labor laws; the law decided all kids should attend school until the age of 16, and should not be forced to work to support their families.

This law was developed based on the idea that EDUCATION IS A RIGHT! Education is an important element in being able to fully pursue happiness as adults.

It placed the individual's rights above the family's needs.

Would you rather still be in the late 1800's, working 14 hours per day in a factory without enough food to eat, just to help your parent(s) pay the rent and buy what little food they could?

Child labor laws and compulsory education protect children from hardships you can't even (obviously) imagine.

Answer 2

You mean compulsory education, right?

"Compulsory education is education which is required by the government, usually at the national level. Many of the world's countries now have compulsory education through at least the primary grades. Compulsory education at the primary level was affirmed as a human right in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. However, such mandates were unknown in Western modernity before 1819, when mandatory schooling was introduced in Prussia. It gradually spread to other countries in the 19th century, reaching the American state of Massachusetts in 1852, and quickly spreading to other US states thereafter. In Canada, although education is a provincial responsibility, compulsory education is set for ages 6 to 16.

The Aztec are thought to have had the first compulsory educational system. All male children were required to attend school until the age of 16"

By the way, I don't agree with mandatory or public schooling. I feel for ya! ;o)

Answer 3

I agree with the person who said Horace Mann, he did lengthen the school year. Now I did use to know who invented school but I just cant think right now...I should stop falling asleep in history, huh?

Answer 4

Well, I don't know exactly who invented public school, but Horace Mann lengthened the school year to about 9 months. The Equal education law pretty much is why kids have to go to school.

Thanks alot, Mr. Mann.

Answer 5

benjamin franklin invented the public school system, as for truancy or mandatory attendance this might have been established according to the individual states, and their needs. for example farming states requirements for attendance would be different then in ny.

Answer 6

u dont have to go to public school. if u dont like it then take them out and get home-school. that way they dont have a social life and no friends and when they get in the real world they will act and feel like freaks. that dont know anything but school. like not know anything of pop culture at all.

Answer 7

all i know is that this guy named Mirabeau B. Lamar IMPROVED public education so people could attend school and not work in the fields and stuff

Answer 8

Good qustion. Maybe it started in Greece or something. They used to teach the youngsters in the city square.

Answer 9

everyone all humans deserve and have a right to an education

Answer 10

i don't know, but i don't agree. lol