In Amite County, about 900 children attend the local public schools — which, as of 2021, were 16% white. More than 600 children attend two private schools — which were 96% white. Other, mostly white students go to a larger segregation academy in a neighboring county.
“It’s staggering,” said Warren Eyster, principal of Amite County High until this school year. “It does create a divide.”
The difference between those figures, 80 percentage points, is one way to understand the segregating effect of private schools — it shows how much more racially isolated students are when they attend these schools.
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Not surprising.
We probably shouldn’t have private schools. We should fund public schools.
Also eat the rich and bury the racists.
