“If you look at the history of the segregation movement, they wanted vouchers to prop up segregation academies,” a professor who studies school segregation says. “And now they’re getting vouchers in some of these areas to prop up these schools.”
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I don't understand why more Americans don't want all the kids in their neighborhoods going to the same schools. The kids will get to know each other and forge closer ties as they age into adults. Maybe that is the point of segregation. Their bigoted parents don't want this outcome.
In every state where school vouchers were on the ballot this year, the measures lost. The people don''t want it, the GOP lawmakers do. It's subsidizing the rich sending their kids to private schools to protect them from the masses. In NC school vouchers were hidden ina supposed Helene relief bill.
Parents understand this too. When you think about it, private schools cost a fortune, so why would parents chose to spend extra money to send their kids to a private school when they can send their kid to the local school for free? We all know the answer, don't we?
More help for the White Christian nationalist movement. I live in Arizona, and earlier ProPublica reported showed state school voucher money going to children who attend private schools, that their parents can afford. This was not how the program was designed to work.
Deep south politicians have spent decades mastering the art of skirting around those pesky desegregation laws, and the problem can only get worse with a GOP-run federal government condoning it.
I started first grade in 1972 at what I suspect was a segregation school in Mississippi, but it’s not on your list here. Any idea how I could find out whether they received funding from the state at the time?
I don’t see mine on that list but it fits the profile 100%. Here is their webpage today. They are more openly Christian than they were in 1972 for sure but the demographics (especially faculty) fit the bill. https://www.tricountyacademy.org
I have always been a blanket supporter of any bond issue for schools. I will gladly tax myself more to fund them. Vouchers and bibles in schools will guarantee that I never vote yes on a school bond again.
The South NEVER accepted their defeat and losing the right to legally own another human being. They want Jim Crow back and they've elected a racist to return it to them!
Money money money. The church wants in on those tax dollars and segregation is just a side benefit (to them). You'd think politicians would hate the competition, but loa nd behold they are the same people.
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I became curious and looked for a MS list because I also went to one, of the many, schools beginning in 1983, transferring to public school in ‘93.
Here’s a quick link from Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Segregation_academies_in_Mississippi
Greed, selfishness, cold heartedness ~ I will have none of it.