- By: Dr. Scott A. Rogers, Superintendent, Minidoka County Schools
America's Public Schools
Taken From Jamie Vollmer’s Work
America’s public schools can be traced back to the year 1640. The Massachusetts Puritans established schools to:
- Teach basic reading, writing, and arithmetic skills, and
- Cultivate values that serve a democratic society (some history and civics implied).
The creators of these first schools assumed that families and churches bore the major responsibility for raising a child. The responsibility of the school was limited and focused for 260 years.
