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Kett cites an 1837 report written by the father of public education himself, Horace Mann.
"It had the status of a rural folk practice," says Kett.
Other school activies common in the early 19th-century, according to Kett: wild student riots on college campuses, sometimes leading to the deaths of professors or locals (in the 1820s, Harvard students set off a keg of gunpowder); high school duels involving knives or guns, sometimes culminating in the deaths of students; scrimmages between higher and lower classes, sometimes leading to massive injuries on one side or the other, or both.
"You have to remember that the Kip Kinkels of the 1850s weren't in school," says Kett.
"Guns were not as ubiqitous at the time as you might think," says Kett.