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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Flint hill started at a segregation academy. Just something to keep in mind. They still strongly glorify their founder. [/quote]
Most of the schools mentioned in this forum were segregation academy’s.[/quote]

Private schools were created in response to integration. This is across the board, almost all private schools founded before 1980. So that's not a FH problem, that's a private school issue.[/quote]

Off the top of my head, GDS and WIS were not segregation academies.[/quote]
Why do you think this?[/quote]

GDS was proactively integrationist, right?  [/quote]

YES!  It was founded in 1945 as an integrated school.  [/quote]
Maybe so, but let’s be honest here.  There were very few Black kids at GDS, much less than the were in the DCPS the GDS students would have been zoned to attend, and many of the students were there so they didn’t have to interact with the Black kids in the public schools.[/quote]

There are/were fewer children (of any race) who attend private vs. public school in this country becuase...it costs money.  In many cases, private school costs a lot of money and most Americans simply cannot afford the tuition.

"M]any of the students were there so they didn’t have to interact with the Black kids in the public."  How do you know the motivations of Black parents who sent their children to GDS in the 1940s and 50s?  Were you a student at GDS at that time?  What an aggressively ignorant and fact-free thing to say.  You must be a FH parent.  [/quote]
Not a FH parent, I just know a little about history and what was going on during the time.  White families were leaving public schools in droves during that time because they didn’t want to be integrated.  Private schools were in higher demand and schools like GDS couldn’t take all the families who didn’t want to intergrate with Blacks so many new independent schools popped up around the time FH was established.  This is a fact and if you do a little research, you will understand.[/quote]

“Private schools were in higher demand and schools like GDS couldn’t take all the families who didn’t want to intergrate with Blacks so many new independent schools popped up around the time FH was established.”  Why would families that didn’t want to integrate with Blacks want to attend GDS…an intentionally racially integrated school?

You sound stupid, and you know nothing about this history.  Back away from the keyboard.[/quote]

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