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re: Anybody here go to private school at a segregation academy when they were a kid?
Posted on 5/15/17 at 8:21 am to GetCocky11
Posted on 5/15/17 at 8:21 am to GetCocky11
Nah, at my high school we segregated ourselves. We didn't have rich parents to do it for us.
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Posted on 5/15/17 at 8:22 am to dgnx6
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You used to be able to discipline kids back then. Still remember getting the ruler to the back of the calf for acting up.
Our principle had a paddle. One side was smooth, the other had a rebel flag. If you acted up, you had a choice. Detention/suspension, or take some licks.
Posted on 5/15/17 at 8:22 am to GetCocky11
In the 1970's in the Ville Platte/Mamou area, there was Evangeline Academy that (might have) existed for this very reason. It closed in the early 1980's.
Any takers on that one?
Any takers on that one?
Posted on 5/15/17 at 8:25 am to GetCocky11
I went to one of these schools from 1-12. The other option was the local failing public school system that the state has to come in every so often, act they they are taking over and turning things around, only to be classsified as a failing school system year after year after year. The private school that I attended has a graduation rate of 98% and considered one of the best in the state at the time. My parents told me that my education was of extreme importance and they were going to give me every opportunity to receive such an education.
Posted on 5/15/17 at 8:29 am to GetCocky11
quote:Not in my day but as the system shrank over time from school closings, they did.
Did the private school ever play the public school in any sports?
MS state playoffs in football used to be and may still be all teams.
Posted on 5/15/17 at 8:30 am to BugAC
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Our principle had a paddle. One side was smooth, the other had a rebel flag. If you acted up, you had a choice. Detention/suspension, or take some licks.
For 1 minute after lunch we would swish flouride, never did that again at any other school I attended. I still remember the teacher counting down.
This post was edited on 5/15/17 at 8:31 am
Posted on 5/15/17 at 8:31 am to 14caratgoldjones
AISA in AL, pretty much all segregation academies, except for a handful of uppity folks who just wanted a private school.
Posted on 5/15/17 at 8:31 am to 14caratgoldjones
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I went to one of these schools from 1-12. The other option was the local failing public school system that the state has to come in every so often, act they they are taking over and turning things around, only to be classsified as a failing school system year after year after year. The private school that I attended has a graduation rate of 98% and considered one of the best in the state at the time. My parents told me that my education was of extreme importance and they were going to give me every opportunity to receive such an education.
Do you think things would be better today if integration would have happened as intended and the private school would have never opened?
Posted on 5/15/17 at 8:34 am to GetCocky11
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Did the private school ever play the public school in any sports?
Ours did, the public school in my hometown was 98% black and we didn't lose to them in anything except basketball.
Posted on 5/15/17 at 8:36 am to Riseupfromtherubble
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While New Orleans is tearing down statues, here is what Selma displays. The statue was stolen a few years ago and they replaced it with a larger one and added the color to the flag
That's fricking pathetic
Posted on 5/15/17 at 8:37 am to GetCocky11
That's how Riverside Academy started. Look at them now. 
Posted on 5/15/17 at 8:39 am to BugAC
There was only a handful of minorities in my entire highschool. I was glad it was that way.
There were very few issues that ever happened
There were very few issues that ever happened
Posted on 5/15/17 at 8:41 am to Fat and Happy
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There was only a handful of minorities in my entire highschool. I was glad it was that way.
There were very few issues that ever happened
Wow
Posted on 5/15/17 at 8:44 am to Comp721
Maybe, but he defended the city despite being outmanned by over 10,000 men. It's a statue, snowflake
Posted on 5/15/17 at 8:46 am to Riseupfromtherubble
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If you wanna call it that. School segregation still exists in my home town
I think "segregation academy" is actually a real term that the schools used to define themselves pre-1970.
Only a few still open in Louisiana.
Posted on 5/15/17 at 8:46 am to GetCocky11
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were set up in the late 50s and 60s
The majority of these academies, in north Louisiana, at least, started around 1970.
Posted on 5/15/17 at 8:47 am to 14caratgoldjones
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I went to one of these schools from 1-12. The other option was the local failing public school system that the state has to come in every so often, act they they are taking over and turning things around, only to be classsified as a failing school system year after year after year
Given the choice, parents that can afford the tuition would not send their kids to the public schools where I grew up either.
Posted on 5/15/17 at 8:48 am to GetCocky11
All of my older cousins attended Amy Bradford Ware High School in Opelousas. Their mascot was the Rebels
and they participated in the LISA league for all sports
and they participated in the LISA league for all sports
Posted on 5/15/17 at 8:49 am to 91TIGER
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Wow. This stuff fascinates me.
Looking at SC, there are 2 segregation academies still around. One is called "Robert E. Lee Academy". I mean, come on now.
This post was edited on 5/15/17 at 8:50 am
Posted on 5/15/17 at 8:50 am to GetCocky11
In the 70's, I had plenty of North Louisiana friends who went to River Oaks in Monroe, Ridgedale Academy in West Monroe and Cedar Creek in Ruston. In the early 70's when I lived in Kosciusko, MS I knew kids who went to East Holmes Academy in Durant.
A lot of the same kind of parents are home schooling kids today.
A lot of the same kind of parents are home schooling kids today.
This post was edited on 5/15/17 at 8:56 am
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