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yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
Wed Jul 19, 2017, 01:40 PM Jul 2017

How many Alabama students attend private schools?

Source: al.com, by Leada Gore

More than 85,000 students in Alabama attend one of 450 private schools in the state. The vast majority of these schools – about 78 percent – are religiously affiliated. The average attendance is $6,133 for elementary schools and $7,044 for middle and high schools, according to privateschoolreview.com.




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How many Alabama students attend private schools? (Original Post) yallerdawg Jul 2017 OP
It's still like that in Farmville VA underpants Jul 2017 #1
It's absolutely scary. They believe in Dominion. YOHABLO Jul 2017 #2
Hillary Rodham went to Alabama in 1972 to work on a project Tanuki Jul 2017 #3
A few years back, saw an Independent School playoffs at Troy (State) University. yallerdawg Jul 2017 #4

underpants

(182,736 posts)
1. It's still like that in Farmville VA
Wed Jul 19, 2017, 01:48 PM
Jul 2017

FarmVille schools were part of the Brown v. Board suit. As I understand it's still pretty much that the white kids go to private school (different levels of cost) and the non-whites go to public school.

 

YOHABLO

(7,358 posts)
2. It's absolutely scary. They believe in Dominion.
Wed Jul 19, 2017, 02:00 PM
Jul 2017

they self segregate, although there are some black students who attend. I think it's more about keeping their children away from the "other". Yeah, praise the Lord >

Tanuki

(14,918 posts)
3. Hillary Rodham went to Alabama in 1972 to work on a project
Wed Jul 19, 2017, 02:04 PM
Jul 2017

with Marian Wright Edelman to investigate whether tax dollars were being used to support private "segregation academies." Betsy DeVos will be happy to funnel more of our money in the form of vouchers to support academic Apartheid.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/28/us/politics/how-hillary-clinton-went-undercover-to-examine-race-in-education.amp.html

..."The future Mrs. Clinton, then a 24-year-old law student, was working for Marian Wright Edelman, the civil rights activist and prominent advocate for children. Mrs. Edelman had sent her to Alabama to help prove that the Nixon administration was not enforcing the legal ban on granting tax-exempt status to so-called segregation academies, the estimated 200 private academies that sprang up in the South to cater to white families after a 1969 Supreme Court decision forced public schools to integrate.

Her mission was simple: Establish whether the Dothan school was discriminating based on race.

“It was dangerous, being outsiders in these rural areas, talking about segregation academies,” said Cynthia G. Brown, a longtime education advocate who did work similar to Mrs. Clinton’s.".....(more)

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
4. A few years back, saw an Independent School playoffs at Troy (State) University.
Wed Jul 19, 2017, 02:28 PM
Jul 2017

It was scary, the lack of diversity. Looked more like a Klan rally.

And this was football in Alabama!

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