Prior to the independence of the United States, school education was mainly organized by the church and local residents. These schools were private schools by modern classification standards. At that time, there were no free schools open to all children. It is up to the parents to decide whether or not a child is going to school.
For various reasons, many school-age children are not attending school, especially girls, and even less. Even if children go to school, most of them only go to junior high school. Few people continue to study after receiving enlightenment education. At that time, there were two main reasons why people opposed the establishment of public schools. One was that they did not want the power of the state government to expand, because school education has always been a local and private business, and the public did not want the state government to intervene. The tax increases because the funding for free school education is bound to be apportioned to the public. However, in the 1830s, with the development of the economy and population, there was a movement in the northern states that required the establishment of free schools regulated by the state government and managed locally, known as the public school movement. Funds for public schools are mainly derived from the real estate tax of residents. This model has been maintained until now: the real estate tax is the financial basis of public schools in the United States, and more than 70% of the real estate tax in many areas is used for school education.
