In fact people afraid of the schools that were opened in the mid-1 9th century. They had their own reasons.
(i) They feared that schools would take girls away from home and prevent them from doing their domestic works.
(ii) As girls had to travel through public places in order to reach school, many people began to feel that this would have a corrupting influence on them.
(iii) Several people were of the opinion that girls should be stay away from public spaces.