God Schooling: How God Intended Children to Learn

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Even as they have been compelled to participate in the white good of colonial knowledge, non-white children, parents, teachers, and community members have resisted, co-opted, and ignored it through more than just the observance of Black History Month—although doing so has required cost and risk. But when some were becoming hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the people, he withdrew from them and took away the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus. President Eisenhower asked the governor to let the children in; instead, the governor withdrew state troops. For millennia, people have used hobbling as a form of mobility reduction to the point of domination.

Dana Elizabeth Weiner, Race and Rights: Fighting Slavery and Prejudice in the Old Northwest, 1830–1870 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013).Abiders were more likely to earn better grades even after accounting for various other background factors, including race, gender, geographic region and family structure. It's problematic in our work as historians to view schooling as a white good with romantic nostalgia, unless we are recovering stories of resistance, empowerment, and justice.

By that I mean formal education is critical to human flourishing and the health of a just and democratic society.Gates, History of Public Land Law Development, 824; Fletcher Harper Swift, A History of Public Permanent Common School Funds in the United States, 1795–1905 (New York: H. Footnote 76 These structures of white advantage continue to operate within “school choice” models today.