ABSTRACT — Starting from the Restoration, the “heder” of the Ancien Regime, gradually turned into an elementary school in the French fashion, within the scope of the educational framework of the country. Due to the rural scattered settlement this change went slowly and was unevenly distributed, depending on the replacement of the former masters by teachers coming from training colleges and on the partial taking on of the charges by the communities. It was just completed before the 1870 war so that Alsace evaded the 1882 Jules Ferry law and the law about the secular education stemmed from the Separation of the Church and the State issued in December 1905. A girl school was started in Strasbourg in 1844. The system of Jewish elementary schools was wiped out by the rural exodus, and disappeared totally after the return of Alsace to France in 1918.
Starting from the Restoration, the “heder” of the Ancien Regime, gradually turned into an elementary school in the French fashion, within the scope of the educational framework of the country. Due to the rural scattered settlement this change went slowly and was unevenly distributed, depending on the replacement of the former masters by teachers coming from training colleges and on the partial taking on of the charges by the communities. It was just completed before the 1870 war so that Alsace evaded the 1882 Jules Ferry law and the law about the secular education stemmed from the Separation of the Church and the State issued in December 1905. A girl school was started in Strasbourg in 1844. The system of Jewish elementary schools was wiped out by the rural exodus, and disappeared totally after the return of Alsace to France in 1918.
