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Was Public School Created To Make Factory Workers?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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The History of the Mather School

It's named after Richard Mather. He was the grandfather of Cotton Mather, a Puritan minister. So that's how old this place has been. You'd get the basics of literacy and arithmetic from your parents. And don't come back until you've killed three rabbits.

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