An interesting bit of history for my "school-choice-originated-in-segregation" folks.
"For Klansmen, like many nativists, public education was the best, indeed, the critical, means of Americanizing "Un-American" foreigners."
Awkward.
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"For Klansmen, like many nativists, public education was the best, indeed, the critical, means of Americanizing "Un-American" foreigners."
Awkward.
cuomeka.wrlc.org/exhibits/show/…
"The public school, Oregon nativists claimed, was the "only sure foundation for the perpetuation of and preservation of our free institutions."
"Yet in the frenzy of post-war hysteria about foreigners, Oregon's Klansmen and their allies were not just concerned about whether public schools would do their duty, they began to worry about the potentially subversive poisons spread by private especially, Catholic, schools."
"A Klan sympathizer from Glendale, Oregon worried that "private ideas antagonistic to free institutions" might flourish in private schools and no one could prevent them from infecting the children educated there. " We cannot afford to run this risk any longer," he contended."
"The Klan sought to purge public schools of any Catholic influences by eliminating Catholic educators. It "is not a question of Catholic's having the right to follow the teaching of their Dago Pope...but the right of Protestants to educate children by the best school system"
"In 1922 the Klan turned to the second goal in its strategy for purifying Oregon: eliminating Catholic schools. To do so, the Klan worked through a front organization, the Scottish Rite Masons, to make all of Oregon's children aged 8 to 16 years old attend only public schools."
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