Compulsory education is a given name to the legally certain period of time to attend a public or state-accredited private school where children must start school by the age of six and remain enrolled until they are 16. The children’s need to have a strong foundation of education will allow them to succeed. Zora Neale Hurston had an issue with that concept because she was a black conservative and she thought the black schools helped educate the black students in history and black culture that they would not get if integrated.