I wonder how many of those were/are segregation academies - ThreadSky

ethnography911.bsky.social • 22 hours ago

I wonder how many of those were/are segregation academies

Percent of school vouchers that go to religious institutions (schools and the churches that run them):

Florida - 82%
Arizona ESP - 87% (older AZ program: 96%)
North Carolina - 92%
Ohio - 91%
Wisconsin - 96%
Indiana - 98%

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iansociologo.bsky.social•22 hours ago

This seems like the kind of question a @propublica.org investigation could answer.

lutzfernandez.bsky.social•21 hours ago

jdukakis.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Many, no doubt. An intentional machete to the public school system.

And a blow to my belief that left-handers are the true elite.

todoscojones.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Nothing promotes atheism among the masses quite as effectively as a religious education.

nanaslugdiva.bsky.social•20 hours ago

You asking the real questions

kamauatl.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Probably more than a handful. I have a habit of looking up the histories of random private schools whenever I come across them.

Any of them founded between 1954 and 1976 are automatically suspect.

nopassaran.bsky.social•19 hours ago

1 would be too many

ethnography911.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Someone linked to a propublica story showing that it’s likely a lot —if not most of them

grammy3.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I'm from Indiana and this makes me livid. They are trying to take more funds from public schools and give it to voucher schools. It needs to stop now!

dbgrows.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Tax the Churches or make them pay for their own schools

calleycat.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Wisconsin - 96%

I heard about 4 years ago Wisconsin was changing a lot and its new name was Wississippi.
Everyone's great grandparents are spinning in their graves.

ethnography911.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Keeping in mind that WI has a higher rate of incarceration than most (if not all) NATO countries. Black Wisconsinites are 6% of the state population, bur represent 41% of the state prison population. Native Americans and Latinos are also over-represented in prisons and jails in the state

calleycat.bsky.social•18 hours ago

One of the dumbest states in the Union.
Low in every important measure.

hurtski.bsky.social•19 hours ago

School vouchers...just another way to give afluent white people another tax break under the guise of school choice.

glassashmi.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Meanwhile, Separation of Church and State in America subtly goes away for good. 🤦😵‍💫🥺🤢🤮🌄💚✊

lutzfernandez.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Quite a few.

z1229.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Starve the public schools where lower SES students attend.
Decry that those schools are failing. Replace them with private $chool$ and the rich get richer.
Easy. Evil.

skipwaw42.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Not a good investment for public capital.

erikam123.bsky.social•19 hours ago

This was always the plan, public money for private education where the schools can choose the students

gamongold.bsky.social•21 hours ago

The private school in my county was the notorious "Prince Edward Academy" founded when the public schools were closed to avoid desegregation. It still exists, renamed Fuqua, and it's still mostly white. 😒

charissla.bsky.social•19 hours ago

The American taxpayer didn't vote for this.

kenburnside.bsky.social•21 hours ago

I'd be "almost all of them."

sharkman1963.bsky.social•19 hours ago

here in IN the parents of those kids are rich and were already able to pay full price, it only helps the rich and takes funds from the rest. It's why IN has such poor education reults, and the gop loves it that way. HORRIBLE voter turnout for a N. state. most are catholic etc btw

jewix18.bsky.social•22 hours ago

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keikiokaaina.bsky.social•20 hours ago

In Florida? 100% sure it's 100%.

apacheecho.bsky.social•22 hours ago

They will all be unvaxed, natural selection will handle it

publiusmaximus.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Let's please not root for the horrific death of literal children.

donlinn.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I don't know about the other states but virtually all private schools in Mississippi are segregation academies. Some have a few black students but that's only for show.

clancyny.bsky.social•22 hours ago

"Indiana - 98%" of vouchers to religious schools

100 years ago, Indiana had one of the largest memberships of the Klan.

"1925, over half the elected members of the Indiana General Assembly, the Governor of Indiana, and many other high-ranking officials in local and state govt" were Klan members.

docfergus.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Indiana’s given me a lot of reasons lately to tell people about this fact. In curriculum they touted that we were a Union state; meanwhile, rednecks would circle our school in their trucks each morning flying the Confederate flag.

clancyny.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Jeezus. "rednecks would circle our school in their trucks each morning flying the Confederate flag."

I used to do human rights field work. And, I've been in a lot of scary situations. So, I'm not particularly timid.

That one would give me pause.

docfergus.bsky.social•16 hours ago

My high school was 10 minutes from Marion, IN—site of the last public lynching in the state. My hometown (still) doesn’t have a stop light, but we have a super-conservative Christian university.

clancyny.bsky.social•16 hours ago

As a kid, I grew up mostly in NYC in an area that rapidly changed to majority Black. My mother white-flighted us in 2nd grade to Long Island, one of the most segregated places in U.S.

No lynchings. But an area one inch from NYC with zero Black people, not coincidentally.

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