Another Jackson Prep Championship, Another Essay by Curmudgeon

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Black people are allowed in private schools. Prep, JA, MRA have black people enrolled. Just about all the private schools in MS are "religiously affiliated." The majority are Christian belief. I say Christian belief because a lot of them don't affiliate to one certain religion. There are several Episcopal Academies and Catholic Schools. The Catholic Schools have played in the MHSSA for years. Many of the private schools use curriculum from Abeka https://www.abeka.com/ChristianSchool/ . Myself, like many of my classmates, went to private school because the public schools in our area did not provide as good of an education.

I went to an academy in MS that was call a "Christian" school and nothing was further from the truth. That was put on most academies in the '60s to give some cover for the real reason they were formed. And, I do agree that I got a better education than I would have gotten at the time in the public school that I would have had to attend. But, that same academy is so small now and dwindling, that I am sure the public high school is far more up to date and advanced than the private one.