The Ever Increasing Burden on America’s Public Schools

BY JAMIE ROBERT VOLLMER 

America’s public schools can be traced back to the year 1640. The Massachusetts Puritans established schools to: 1) Teach basic reading, some writing and arithmetic skills, and 2) Cultivate values that serve a democratic society (some history and civics implied). The founders of these schools assumed that families and churches bore the major responsibility for raising a child. Gradually, science and geography were added, but the curriculum was limited and remained focused for 260 years. At the beginning of the twentieth century, however, politicians, academics, members of the clergy, and business leaders saw public schools as a logical site for the assimilation of immigrants and the social engineering of the citizens—and workers—of the new industrial age. They began to expand the curriculum and assign additional duties.

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And we have not added a single minute to the school calendar in six decades!

This was shared in my grad class today.  I found it fascinating and I thought I would share.  I want to know which schools have elevator and escalator safety training - maybe schools with elevators and escalators !!!  K