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14 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Anyone ready for some depressingly predictable history?
Turns out the Noble confession from Chicago is only the latest in a long tradition of cruel extra punishment in schools for Black kids. (Thread warning.)
wbez.org/stories/top-ch…
The first urban school reform in the USA was all about controlling poor kids. White reformers assumed Black kids needed extra control.
iloveyoubutyouregoingtohell.org/2019/06/10/fro…
The lead reformer back then, Joseph Lancaster, claimed not to see any problem with shackling Black kids together and making them parade backwards around his classroom.
iloveyoubutyouregoingtohell.org/2019/08/01/why…
The urban school reform movement of the early 1800s was an early "no-excuses" plan.
It didn't work.
iloveyoubutyouregoingtohell.org/2018/06/17/fro…

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15 Mar
The news by @ElizRedden is sad but not surprising.
LGBTQ students don’t feel at home at anti-LGBTQ Christian colleges.
Why don’t colleges do more?
It’s not so simple. (THREAD warning)
insidehighered.com/news/2021/03/1…
I said it in my book, Fundamentalist U: There’s lots of pressure from the Right edge.
Tuition dollars are tight.
Why would anti-LGBTQ parents shell out $$$ for a pro-LGBTQ college?
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Plus, there can be HUGE payouts for holding the anti-LGBTQ line.
Gordon College got $75.5 MILLION.
Every Christian university president noticed.
iloveyoubutyouregoingtohell.org/2019/10/08/a-d…
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24 Mar 20
Now it looks like @libertyU vs everybody.

How does this flip the historical script? A lil thread:

newsadvance.com/news/local/tho…
Back in the 1940s, even hard-core Fundamentalist U sometimes put ideology in the back seat.
Exhibit A: in 1946, Bob Jones College grabbed as much army-surplus as it could, in spite of BJC’s generally leery attitude about the feds.
Exhibit B: In one famous case, though, Bob Jones clung to its conservative, segregationist ideology WAY longer than other white southern fundamentalist colleges. How did that work out?
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