re: #90 Decatur Deb

When integration was finally enforced in our town, a crop of religious and private academies flew up overnight. Some received suddenly-surplus public school property at firesale prices. Our public schools have never recovered.

Same thing happened to my mom’s hometown in Tennessee. I think it contributed hugely to her hatred for the mixing of public money with private education, particularly religious private education, like vouchers.

The hatred was intensified when she lived in RI and saw how much taxpayer money went to private Catholic schools.