... people put forth effort to make sure that all children can be educated without cost. In reality though, the majority of children who could attend school were white middle class boys. Girls were often perceived as not bright enough to need schooling and slave children were needed on the plantation. Some poor boys attended school. Often they would have to leave class and rush ... home to help their parents, or sometimes go with their fathers to work and not even attend school at all. (Doc E) In 1826, American Society for ... and Resolutions declared that all men and women are created equ...

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