This was one of the first impactful moments in U.S. history in relation to education. That this city was made it mandatory to have a schoolhouse infers that they will provide the opportunity for education to our citizens. This action helped make the push to have elementary education mandatory throughout the U.S. and even in today society there is a set standard that each school district must meet and this couldn’t have happen if it was for the first required schoolhouse in New Hampshire.
B. Horace Mann Help standardize elementary schools across the United States:
Because of Horace Mann’s passion for structuring Elementary school and actively going from town to town establish set standards in the schoolhouse, we now today have the Federal Board of Education. He created the blueprint for elementary schools; from the curriculum, to even the type of seating that should be in the schoolhouse. In today society we still follow in his footsteps by perpetually critiquing our school system and finding different ways to improve them.
C. Benjamin Roberts Tried enrolling his black daughter into a white school: …show more content…
To have the courage to even attempt to enroll his black child into an all-white school in Boston during the 1840’s is astonishing. This time period take place prior to the Emancipation Proclamation of 1865, which is the act that ended slavery in the United States. I honestly don’t think that without Roberts campaigning in his day that the brown v. board of education would have even been possible, this was the renowned case to desegregate schools in the U.S. in the 1960’s. Today people of all color are afforded the opportunity to attend any school in America; we owe that to Benjamin