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Originally Posted by That secular source again
Statistics for the percentage of enrollment in American K–12 private schools in the latter part of the nineteenth century reveal that in 1879 private secondary enrollment made up 73.3 percent of the total; by 1889–1890, in the wake of the growth of public secondary education, that figure had dropped to 31.9 percent. By 1900, 7.6 percent of the total school enrollment was in private schools.
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As can be seen, secular, government run schools were a SMALL minority until the early 20th century era, when they outpaced private nongovernmental education. And it's been downhill ever since, I might add.
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