The regulations about school attendance were loosened in consideration of foundation of private schools and people's heavy burden, but they were revised twice in December 1880 and in August 1885 because of outpouring of opposing opinions.
私学校設立と国民の重い負担に鑑みて就学に関する規定を緩和したが反対意見が噴出し、翌1880年（明治13年）12月と1885年（明治18年）8月の2度の改正がなされた。