Posted on 11/11/2019 2:13:49 PM PST by MplsSteve
Faced with growing public pressure to end racial segregation in public schools, thousands of white parents in the early 1970s enrolled their children in private academies that sprang up across the South.
Ellen Ann Fentress, a journalist and writer, was one of them. She is telling her story and urging other alumni of “seg academies” to come forward and give testimony about how attending an intentionally segregated school has shaped their lives as well as the social, political and economic fabric of the South.
Fentress first told her story in June with an essay in the online publication the Bitter Southerner. She wrote of being pulled from her public school in Greenwood, Miss., during her eighth-grade year and plunked down in “a scrambled egg-yellow steel building in a cotton field” called Pillow Academy.
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They have the same type of schools in the north but they are not just racially segregated, they are financially segregated. Mostly it’s the money that separates these kids from others. They mostly came from suburbs and rural towns.
That’s nothing. In the 1970’s people in Europe went to school with ALL Whites. They barely had any rapes at all. How dare you!!!!
That’s nothing. In the 1970’s people in Europe went to school with ALL Whites. They barely had any rapes at all. How dare you!!!!
Self flagellating atonement and reparations?
In 1970 our junior high school was integrated. We had new black teachers and black students working at and attending our school. Within a very short time black girls were targeting me for fights. My dad straightened out the incident where a much bigger black girl tried to push me down the stairs but I handled the one in gym class.I didn’t realize it until much later that the teachers and principals were all on tenterhooks about the transition which was not going as smoothly as they had hoped for. For my 9th and 10th grades I attended a parochial school. Funny how no one threatened me there. This white guilt thing is complete hokum.
If we wish to have peace I believe that we should push for more homogeneity rather than diversity.
How does one transition from a staunch libertarian Republican to a flaming liberal? How does that happen?
Your parents did it out of love and their compelling need to protect you. You should be thanking them.
No, it is not.
Many urban schools get far more money per student than many rural schools.
It is the parents and the culture of the area.
If the parents emphasize education and discipline, the students do well.
Parental involvement trumps spending on education, above a basic level.
All US schools are far, far, above a basic level.
Schools that were held in one room with one teacher produced a much better education with 5% of the funds available to urban schools today, in constant dollars.
We spend enormous amounts on "education" but most of it goes to high priced teachers, teachers unions, administrators, extreme physical plant costs (school buildings are the most expensive per square foot buildings in the U.S., and consultants, and all kinds of welfare programs from school lunch to sports items.
Almost none of that is needed to educate students well.
The education system is mostly a way for government agents to hold children hostage and extract enormous amounts of money from the taxpayers, claiming the students will be harmed if the money is not paid.
Now let’s hear about the marvelous glory of Historically Black Colleges.
“These schools thrive today as a reaction to sub standard public education. In these schools you will also find minorities from parents that just want a good education for their kids.”
They cost basically 25K to 50K per year to enroll the kid. That doesn’t include books, Ipads, Imacs and other required items.
There was/is an unwritten semi promise to get their graduates into good colleges. That has been weakened some what in California re the so called elite colleges catering to the super rich kids. They have also expanded a basic 4 year program into 6 or 7 years and require a lot of basic high school courses. So the former 4 year colleges make more money with their new 5-7 year basic 4 year degrees.
Most of these expensive private high schools have no color bars. Their parents have to be willing to spend $100K or more for their kids to go to these private high schools.
Wise parents are steering their kids into good private out of state colleges to get a good degree in basically 4 years.
One of our younger female relatives was graduated with highest honors from a top private high school. She had 1 B and the rest were basically honor A’s. She wanted a good stem college and was turned down at every Cali college because of the one b.
We suggested to her parents to try out of state colleges. She was accepted at every school she applied to and is attending a top ranked school with a $25 k/year scholarship.
Good friends had a similar situation with their grand daughter not being accepted at any Cali college. We suggested the out of state strategy. Their grand daughter was accepted at a top out of state school with a $25 k/year scholarship.
my best friend pulled his kids from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg public school system many years ago when they came home from school speaking Ebonics ... one eventually went to West Point and became a Captain, the other is a surveyor and he and his wife are close to making a full living selling their artwork ...
Or even “West” St. Louis...
I’m not talking about money to the education departments, I’m talking about wealthy families who send their kids to expensive private schools because the parents went there or their wealthy friends attend the school. There are good schools in the area but that doesn’t matter to them, it’s a status symbol.
Condemn self-flagellation as stupid, undeservingly painful, and just plain wrong. If you want to help correct a “wrong”, i.e. help a black kid stay in school, have a father in the house, stay away from drugs, and learn the concept of respect for all people.
They hate themselves enough that they replace actual experiences and feelings with what they think they “should have had” - living in a delusion....
I went to Catholic schools in a Southern state in the 60s and 70s because my parents disliked the local public school system. Segregation academies? Not in the least. We had a handful of Black kids in our classes. My elementary school even had nuns from a special order that would teach Black and White kids together. In the 1920s and 30s, that was enough for the Klan to intermittently make threats against the parish priest and to burn down the nuns’ convent.
Petitfour beat me to it.
These New York publishing hypocrites chap my butt.
The horrors of Greenwood Pillow
I can only assume she wasn’t popular
Her and Kathryn Stockett should get a room
A cheap one
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