Heard tell in U.S. History there was a hue and cry from agrarian
areas over mandatory public education when it first implemented
and farmer's kids were forced into public schools.

Don't remember the time period however, was it 1870s, 1880s,
1890s, 1900s, 1910s... ???

Who would have thought?

Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors


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No false modesty there; I clearly did not know what I was talking about.
There was a DOE formed under the Carter administration, but it was the
Department of Energy, not the Department of Education. Looking at the
Department of Education's web site at http://www.ed.gov/stats.html, I read:
Continuing a tradition that began in 1867 with the creation of the original
U.S. Department of Education,