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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 9:37 am to chinese58
Posted on 5/15/17 at 9:37 am to chinese58
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n 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.
Cedar Creek is no longer segregated. It's still majority white, but KJ Malone went there, and He wasn't the only black kid. Ruston has always had a pretty good public school system, and many-I don't think a majority-but many, Cedar Creek kids are from surrounding towns like Jonesboro, Farmerville, etc, that are too small to have their own private schools.
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Posted on 5/15/17 at 9:40 am to Jim Rockford
Has anyone mentioned Riverside Academy in Reserve, LA?
Posted on 5/15/17 at 10:01 am to Jim Rockford
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surrounding towns like Jonesboro, Farmerville, etc, that are too small to have their own private schools.
Farmerville has three schools now. Union Parish HS, D'Arbonne Woods Charter School and they've had a a private school, Union Christian, for 17 years. Guess some people thought Cedar Creek was too far or too integrated.
Posted on 5/15/17 at 11:32 am to Jim Rockford
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Cedar Creek is no longer segregated. It's still majority white, but KJ Malone went there, and He wasn't the only black kid. Ruston has always had a pretty good public school system, and many-I don't think a majority-but many, Cedar Creek kids are from surrounding towns like Jonesboro, Farmerville, etc, that are too small to have their own private schools
I went there. The way they perceive the school starting now is more of a Christian alternative to public school. It's not technically a Christian School and has no affiliation with any church, but they try to market it as a small alternative where religion isn't attacked (of any kind).
Like you said, Karl Malone's 4 kids went there. He also paid for a couple of more black kids from the area on a scholarship type deal. Multiple professors that are black send their kids there. We also had a significant amount of Indian (dot not feather) and Middle Eastern kids as well as Asians.
The school is still way majority white, but I wouldn't say they try to stop anybody from coming and every grade probably has a few minority kids out of a 50 or so person class.
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