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

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quote: 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?

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Maybe. Then argument comes when you have such a contrast in parental and school performance expectations, the private school option is very appealing. Small classes, safe environment, quality teachers who are there to make a divider be and not to receive retirement benefits, and every student, not all, are EXPECTED to attend a 4 year college. The old saying " you are only as strong as your weakest link" is correct. Kids performaning at a high level can't be, and shouldn't be, expected to be have to wait so the school system can cater to kids who are slower or just don't give a damn. The private schools don't have to cater to the weakest and slowest and there in lies the problem with the question would the public schools have been better off without private schools ever opening. It would have happened sooner or later, in this cases it just happened sooner.