French Elementary as a boy
Hardy jr high
Then forced busing turned public schools into mostly black
I did a year of that and after witnessing assaults on teachers and 16 year old 9th graders gang banging a 7th grade 12 year old girl in the mezzanine bathrooms and various knife fights and near student versus student knife fights my folks pulled me out and moved to north Jackson and put me in Jackson Prep 1971 in 9th grade and that was it pretty much
Prep is a Mississippi institution like French Camp or St Als in Vicksburg or all the various Delta academies
It’s just life there
Both my elementary and junior high both ghetto now
Did you ever swim at Spur Six, between Hattiesburg and Purvis?
My grandmother would take us there during the summer, but she ruined it for me one year but throwing a big rock in before she let us swim.
“Hold up children, let me scare off the snakes!”