My Country – Putting the Bible in Public Schools After New York created a secular education system, schools continued to debate religious documents in their classrooms. In 1953, the Board of Education in Rutherford, New Jersey, allowed the Gideons to distribute copies of the Bible to all its children. Children became like that drawer next …
My Country – Thaddeus Stevens and the Pauper School Laws On April 10, 1835, Thaddeus Stevens, then a member of the Pennsylvania legislature, spoke against the pauper school laws. Pauper School Laws Pauper school began in England. If indigent parents declared themselves paupers, their children could go to a specified school for a free education. …