{"id":287825,"date":"2016-12-30T13:33:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T12:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-blacks-changed-our-school\/"},"modified":"2016-12-30T13:33:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T12:33:01","slug":"how-blacks-changed-our-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-blacks-changed-our-school\/","title":{"rendered":"How Blacks Changed Our School"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>By George Holiday<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A once-vital Catholic school is now is steep decline.<\/p>\n<p>I am a teacher at a small Catholic school, where I have taught for over 15 years. During that time I have seen a massive demographic shift in the student population. As you might expect, the effects have been mostly\u2014and significantly\u2014negative. This shift closely mirrors the overall trends in our society in terms of its effects on group behavior and identity, and the future of our country.<\/p>\n<p>The school has been around for more than half a century, in what is now a racially mixed suburb. For most of its history, it was attended by children from the parish. The community was very tight-knit. It was common for a teacher to educate two or even three generations of the same family. When children became friends their parents often became friends. School events such as banquets, festivals, cooking competitions, and fish fries were major social events for parents and students alike. Most of the families attended church together, and priests stayed at the church for years. Most of the students who did not attend our church were still Catholic; they came because their neighboring parishes did not have their own schools. The student body was overwhelmingly white\u2014usually 90 percent or more\u2014and most non-white students were Asians. Some of the black students were African Catholics, but most were American blacks who lived nearby.<\/p>\n<p>The curriculum focused on what were traditionally core subjects in Western&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/how-blacks-changed-our-school\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By George Holiday A once-vital Catholic school is now is steep decline. I am a teacher at a small Catholic school, where I have taught for over 15 years. During that time I have seen a massive demographic shift in the student population. As you might expect, the effects have been mostly\u2014and significantly\u2014negative. This shift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-287825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}