Looking at a timeline of the American Education System there were a lot of different topics that caught my attention. One event that really stood out to me was the opening of one of the first public high schools in America the Boston English High School. There are many reasons I find this interesting first of all that this event happened in the year 1821. This is over one hundred years after schooling systems were introduced into America. That means that for many many years the only people who were going to school were ones that were going to private schools. I personally went to a public school, if I lived before this time then the school I went to would not have even been an idea and I would have ended up at a private school.

I think this is one of the most important events in the education systems history. It created an entirely new idea of what schooling could be making it public to people who wanted to watch. Now they would not be fully public for quite some time, but this was a huge step in the right direction during that time. Public schools are now what a lot of kids go to for high school and this was one of the first ones to open. It showed progress being made in including everyone in making America what it is today. Without public schools the system and the country that we live in would not be what it is right now.