Massachusetts General Laws

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 71, § 30 (2026)

Moral education

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Section 30. The president, professors and tutors of the university at Cambridge and of the several colleges, all preceptors and teachers of academies and all other instructors of youth shall exert their best endeavors to impress on the minds of children and youth committed to their care and instruction the principles of piety and justice and a sacred regard for truth, love of their country, humanity and universal benevolence, sobriety, industry and frugality, chastity, moderation and temperance, and those other virtues which are the ornament of human society and the basis upon which a republican constitution is founded; and they shall endeavor to lead their pupils, as their ages and capacities will admit, into a clear understanding of the tendency of the above mentioned virtues to preserve and perfect a republican constitution and secure the blessings of liberty as well as to promote their future happiness, and also to point out to them the evil tendency of the opposite vices.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 8 cases, 1970–2014 · leading case: McDuffy v. Sec'y of the Exec. Off. of Educ., 615 N.E.2d 516 (Mass. 1993).

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McDuffy v. Sec'y of the Exec. Off. of Educ., 615 N.E.2d 516 (Mass. 1993). · cites it 4× “Last, in a provision which reveals the close relationship between public education and the survival of the republic in the minds of the members of the early Commonwealth (and which remains in effect today as G.L.c. 71, § 30), the 1789 statute directed teachers to instruct…”

Garney v. Massachusetts Teachers' Ret. Sys., 14 N.E.3d 922 (Mass. 2014). · cites it 2× “” G. L. c. 71, § 30. See McDuffy, supra at 594 & n.”

Curtis v. Sch. Comm., 420 Mass. 749 (Mass. 1995). “), by failing to report sexual abuse of students reasonably expected to occur based on students’ use of condoms, and G. L. c. 71, § 30 (1994 ed.), the moral education statute.”

Perryman v. Sch. Comm. of Boston, 458 N.E.2d 748 (Mass. App. Ct. 1983). “71, § 1, seventh sentence) *351 in Dupree , they nonetheless conflict with the obligations imposed on teachers by G. L. c. 71, §§ 30, 38, and 38G, which can be collectively described as requiring teachers to be of such “moral character” as to be able to instruct students on the…”

Dupree v. Sch. Comm. of Boston, 446 N.E.2d 1099 (Mass. App. Ct. 1983). “G.L.c. 71, § 30. See also G.L.c. 71, § 38, as amended through St.”

Hasson v. Boothby, 318 F. Supp. 1183 (D. Mass. 1970). “G.L. c. 71, § 30, requires the teaching of sobriety and temperance in the schools.”

Dupree v. Sch. Comm., 446 N.E.2d 1099 (Mass. App. Ct. 1983). “G. L. c. 71, § 30. See also G. L. c. 71, § 38, as amended through St.”

Curtis v. Falmouth Sch. Comm., 1 Mass. L. Rptr. 492 (Mass. Super. Ct. 1993). · cites it 2× “119, §51 A, by failing to report sexual abuse of students reasonably expected to occur based on students’ use of condoms, and G.L.c. 71 §30, the moral education statute.”

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