Digest of Public School Laws, 1896 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Digest of Public School Laws, 1896

This chapter is to be considered a continuation of that 9 on the educational pro visions of the constitutions of the States appearing in the last report. Matters there appearing as broadly blocked out by the electors are here collected under certain pedagogical heads as elaborated by the several legislatures and published throughout the extent of some pages, each State arranging and classifying its laws to suit its own convenience. The method of treating each State uni formly employed in this digest not only concentrates the facts, but at the same time, in a measure, indexes them. In the next report, in addition to the inevi table annual revision, it is hoped to lay the final chapter of this series before the pu blic.

In considering the general character of the school laws of the States, one is im pressed that there is a certain apparent if not real distinction between the varying emphasis that has been placed on the same subj ect. In the manufacturing East, northeast of Pennsylvania at least, there has lately been developed an intense desire to operate effectively upon the parent to cause him to educate his child; in other words, to cause him to avail himself for the good of the child of the advan tages ofiered by the public schools at least for a short period during the year. In the South the preoccupation seems to have been to provide competent teachers, while in the West there has been a tendency to regulate the politico-educational machinery.

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