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Churning out good little Libtard drones

What about 1607 Jamestown to 1620 Williamsburg, Virginia.

Or, did the 1619 project and Abe Lincoln's declaration of Thanksgiving as a Northern USA holiday with an origin story needed in Massachusetts get in your way ?

It was the Pilgrim/Puritans that started the first organized schools with paid teachers

The Puritans also put people in the stocks, and pelted them with rotten veggies for public shaming

Paying Sunday School Teachers at a cult faction non-compliant of the Church of England was maybe more of an experience akin to making todays Westboro Baptist Church appear peaceful, loving, & inclusive, when in comparison to The Puritans.

Plymouth, Massachusetts is nothing if not 2nd place in being the 2nd continuous settlement established in English North America. Third settlement actually, if one counts Spain's establishment of St. Augustine Florida. (Great Britain didn't become Irish-Scots-British until 1707 or so.... right? )
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"The first representative government in British America began at Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 with the convening of a general assembly, at the request of settlers who wanted input in the laws governing them."

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https://www.jyfmuseums.org/visit/jamestown-settlement/history-of-jamestown

Your contortions to avoid the fact that church sponsored schools provided better outcomes in more difficult conditions than government schools is almost amusing

Not sure about that, yet How you went there for a reply to "Puritans = Westboro" actually is.

Absolutely correct.