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Racine College subsequently became a preparatory school with both secondary and older primary-age boys--the Racine College Grammar School. The grammar school appears to have existed from the earliest years of the College. We are not sure about the nature of the orgiginal grammar school, but by the turn-of-the 20th century it was not a grammar school in the normal sence that the term is used in America--that of a primary school. The Racine school was more like a British grammar school in the sence of a secondary, but with entry at about 11-12 years of age. I am not sure what age the Racine College Grammar School accepted, but we see quite young boys as well as younger teenagers. Like the College, the Grammar School was a boarding school. We note boys wearing military uniforms in the early 1900s. This prep school finally evolved into a military school. It closed in 19??. The buildings are now used as a community center.
Racine College was a tertiary insstitution established by the Episopalian Church in 1851. After about 40 years it became a preparatory school with both secondary and older primary-age boys--the Racine College Grammar School. The grammar school appears to have existed from the earliest years of the College. We are not sure about the nature of the orgiginal grammar school, but by the turn-of-the 20th century it was not a grammar school in the normal sence that the term is used in America--that of a primary school. The Racine school was more like a British grammar school in the sence of a secondary, but with entry at about 11-12 years of age. I am not sure what age the Racine College Grammar School accepted, but we see quite young boys as well as younger teenagers. Like the College, the Grammar School was a boarding school. This prep school finally evolved into a military school. It closed in 19??. The buildings are now used as a community center.
Many American schools were founded in the 19th centuries. Here we are not referring to the military academies. Rather these were schools for school age boys. Most were for secondary age-boys, but there were schools for younger boys as well. Many well-to-do American parents who had no intention of dorecting their boys into military careers, seem to have thought that military schools offered badly needed discipline. This is interesting, because there was no similar trend in Europe. Private schools in Europe were not generally organized along military lines. Britain had a few charity schools that were. And Austria and Germany had cadet schools that began the training of military officers. American military schools were not primarily set up to train military officers. In fact, while America had more military schools than all of Europe combined, it only a very small military. Europe in the early 20th century was involved in a massive arms race inwhich the United States did not participate. (One of the reasons that many Europeans immigrated to America was the conscription system in the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires. As a result, when World War I began, the United States had virtuall no army.
Many private American schools were boarding schools. There were two different types of schools. Some were organized like British schools, both preparatory and public schools. Preparatory schools in America had a different meaning than in Bfitain. They were more like British public than preparatory schools. Others were organized like military schools. Boarding schools for younger children were not as common as in Britain, byt rgere were quite a few secondary level schools. This shows the impact of British educatuion on American schools, at least for the affluent class, many of whom were of British ancestry. We are guessing that there was a house system at the school, but we are not positive.
We note boys wearing military uniforms in the They are styled just like U.S. early 20th century army uniforms. We do not know enough about the school to know to what extent beyond the uniform there was a military program.
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