Anybody here go to private school at a segregation academy when they were a kid?

My former in-laws attended one set up in Plaquemines Parish after desegregation was enforced. I doubt it's still there, since Buras doesn't really exist anymore, but I'm sure kids who attend those schools now do understand the history (as much as a teenager who has no life experience can understand something like desegregation).

Are they not the best, or one of the best, school options in their areas? Who gives a frick why they were set up (according to you)? I'll send my kids to the place where they will get the best education.

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segregation academy

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also known as any school which must be paid for out of pocket?

If you wanna call it that. School segregation still exists in my home town (and many other small towns in Alabama but not to that extent). The public schools are 99.9% black and all of the white kids in the city proper and surrounding small towns go to one of the 4 private schools. One of these schools has been around since the 60s and has had one black student.

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

I did not, but most private schools are practically segregation academies.

I went to one of the 3 you mentioned.

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Do the students that attend these schools understand why the school was founded or is it just something that isn't really discussed in these communities?

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Not really discussed at all. We went there because it was really only 1 of 2 options. Unless you wanted to go to public schools in the area that were very poor educational wise, and not exactly safe.

Now i'm not saying my school was the pinnacle of private school education, but my parents put my brother and I in there because they didn't want us in those public school cesspools.

And yes, we did notice there were no black kids in our school, but as a student, we didn't know why. However, as i understand it, my old school is no longer only white, but they are still the large majority.

Nah, at my high school we segregated ourselves. We didn't have rich parents to do it for us.

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.

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were set up in the late 50s and 60s

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The majority of these academies, in north Louisiana, at least, started around 1970.

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.