Massachusetts Republicanism

The four Massachusetts institutions that were "Principal Sources of that Wisdom in Council, and that skill and Bravery in War, which have produced the American Revolution"

1. Towns
2. Churches
3. Schools
4. Militia

John Adams to the Abbé de Mably (1783)https://t.co/p7ImiPpjql pic.twitter.com/4AUfmhOD3z

— Pavlos Papadopoulos (@pleonidasp) June 22, 2021

From the 2016 Abbeville Institute Summer School

When the South Was America 1607-1861 by Donald Livingston

American Culture: Virginia or Massachusetts? by Clyde Wilson

The South and the Renewal of America by Carey Roberts

Waving the Secede Flag–How to Regain State’s Rights by Jeffrey Addicott

Related:
The Compact Theory of the Constitution by Kent Masterson Brown

The Massachusetts Education Miracle?

I've been looking at the Core Knowledge Sequence because it is the program used by Stratford School.
It is touted as being the cause of Massachusett's recent success in improving test scores and the like. Its creator is E. D. Hirsch.

From 2009: E. D. Hirsch’s Curriculum for Democracy
And, just recently: The Massachusetts Exception

More info:
E.D. Hirsch Jr.: Common Core Standards could revolutionize reading instruction
Educational Theory of E.D. Hirsch

I quickly examined the curriculum for elementary grades. History cannot help but be "indoctrination" as it is a narrative with a viewpoint, not a "neutral" science, so what is the official perspective of the school or of the program? Science is taught way too early, even if the pedagogy they think they are using is sound - teaching the "fundamentals" of nature at an early age and then building upon it. That's still memorization, not knowledge, since one cannot have direct sense experience of the "atomic level."

Still, it may be good with respect to reading, writing, and math skills. I haven't checked to see how much of the liberal arts the curriculum embodies - the description at the school claims that they teach students how to think, write, and speak.

Some videos:


Something from way back -

Judges' Shock Ruling Okays Fantasist's "Repressed Memories" Fraud
By JOANN WYPIJEWSKI

[T]he commonwealth is the last sanctuary for sex fantasists keen to lock someone up, perhaps for life, on no evidence at all.
On January 15 the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts distinguished itself as the last court in America to accept, in the face of voluminous research and scientific opinion to the contrary, repressed memory (also called massive amnesia, dissociative amnesia, recovered memory) as valid evidence in a criminal prosecution.

It did so in its ruling in the case of Paul Shanley, the defrocked Catholic priest who in 2005 was convicted of raping and otherwise molesting a child on nothing more than the tearful “recovered memories” of the now-grown accuser. Shanley had become the eye of the panic storm over priestly abuse that swept through Boston and then the nation in 2002. The accuser, Paul Busa, was one of three young men who all had the same personal injury lawyer; all went to the same therapists; all talked together at length; all described nearly identical heinous assaults occurring in the same place and time when they were little boys in the same religious education class; all, miraculously, experienced total amnesia after each assault, so that they went innocently with the priest to be raped again and again every Sunday for years; and all, even more miraculously, recovered their memories of these agonies at the same time, after The Boston Globe decided to make Shanley its No. 1 “depraved priest”.

They also all were plaintiffs in a civil suit that the Archdiocese of Boston settled, before Shanley’s trial and against its lawyers’ advice, thereby collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars for their claimed suffering. Busa pocketed $500,000. His friend Gregory Ford, the first to recover his memories and, until he was discredited, the poster child of priests’ victims, got at least $1.4 million, the biggest individual payment made by the Catholic Church in Boston in the midst of the scandal. All three, along with another man, who was represented by the same personal injury lawyer, made essentially the same claims but had been in a different class as a kid, were complainants in the criminal indictment against Shanley brought by the then-Middlesex County DA, Martha Coakley.