Reply #13: There is a very real disconnect between actual parochial schools, i.e., [View All]

[nealmhughes]

those run by accredited Catholic, Jewish, Lutheran, Episcopal organizations and the so-called "Christian schools." Most of the above are accredited by their states and are under the law "private schools," not religious schools. The difference is very important, as there are NO standards at all -- not even fire codes or educational standards for teachers in Alabama. English does not even have to be the language of instruction for a "religious school."

I was once working on a very important long article on this (specifically Alabama, since the standards for public and private schools are amazingly strict in this state -- odd, eh?) topic, but got so disspirited from the websites of the textbook suppliers and the right wing spin (new take on Whig History these guys!) of the administrators that I just have my notes and could not stomach to write text.

Some of these are actually seg acadamies. They circumvent the private school statutes by claiming to be "eucumenical religious schools."

I have a friend with whom I went thru much of the Ph.D. program at Alabama who has a first cousin who sent her kids to one of these "to keep the Nigras out of there" and the kids who had straight A's at the seg academy -- oops, Christian academy -- did not get decent enougb ACT scores to go to a public liberal arts university, they had to take remedial everything for a year at the local community college to get to a Tier III public college...