Question

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was not required by the Massachusetts Education Law of 1642?
O
Children were to be educated in basic religious principles and the laws of the commonwealth.
O Children were to be able to read and write.
O Children of servants were included in the law as recipients of said education.
Children were to be sent to designated schoolmasters for their learning.

Answer 1

The correct answer is Children were to be sent to designated schoolmasters for their learning

The responsibility of educating children was on parents and apprenticeship masters, not on designated teachers or schoolmasters. However, the law did allow the government to step in if the supervising adults failed in their responsibilities.

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

What was not required by the Massachusetts Education law of 1642 is;

Children were to be sent to designated schoolmaster for their learning

Step-by-step explanation:

The Law of 1642 required that parents and master see to it that their children knew the principles of religion and the capital laws of the commonwealth.

The important aspects of the 1642 Law includes;

1) The responsibility for the basic education and literacy of a child are those of the parents and masters of child apprentices

2) Reading and writing competency of all children and servants are a requirement

3) It is the duty of the government, where a parent or master are unable to meet their tutoring responsibility, to see that a child is placed where the basic educational requirement will be met.

The role of a schoolmaster or the setting of a formal school were yet to be formed as at that time.