Random Research Hours #1: Learning about U.S school history through a bad article on school-choice.
Channel: Axel Maiz
Date: 27/02/2023

Today, I'm reading out to you an article I came across while researching for the Bishop Sycamore episode (first part coming soon!). The article is titled "The Once and Future Promise of Religious Schools for Poor and Minority Students," by Michael Bindas, published in the Yale Law Journal on the 17th of November, 2022. The article is a defense of school-choice, particularly school-choice when it comes to religious schools, on the heels of the Carson v. Makin Supreme Court decision (you can read a supportive summary of what the decision entails here: https://tinyurl.com/4p9f8swm). The reading I do here is critical, and I actively debate against Bindas' thesis and rhetoric throughout. Fuck "school-choice," to put it simply.

00:00 - 02:38 Video Intro
02:38 - 10:35 Article Intro & Carson v. Makin
10:35 - 21:04 Framing Bindas' Argument
21:04 - 50:45 Part 1, Slavery and Antebellum US
50:45 - 1:31:30 Part 2, The NEA Invented Racism apparently
1:31:30 - 1:56:10 Bindas' "Solution" and School Districting
1:56:10 - 1:58:41 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
1:58:41 - 2:02:21 Video Outro

List of the articles I read out/referenced in this video (in order of when I mentioned them):
Bindas, Michael. “The Once and Future Promise of Religious Schools for Poor and Minority Students.” The Yale Law Journal, vol. 132, Forum Collection, Nov. 2022, www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/the-once-and-future-promise-of-religious-schools-for-poor-and-minority-students.

Freedman, David. “African-American Schooling in the South Prior to 1861.” The Journal of Negro History, vol. 84, no. 1, 1999, pp. 1–47. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2649081. Accessed 27 Feb. 2023.

Richards, Meredith P. “The Gerrymandering of School Attendance Zones and the Segregation of Public Schools.” American Educational Research Journal, vol. 51, no. 6, American Educational Research Association (AERA), Dec. 2014, pp. 1119–57. https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831214553652. (PDF here: https://tinyurl.com/2p958y6d)

Wilson, Erika K. “Racialized Religious School Segregation.” The Yale Law Journal, vol. 132, Forum Collection, Nov. 2022, www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/the-once-and-future-promise-of-religious-schools-for-poor-and-minority-students.

List of music used by order they appear:
lazy office day with isabelle, by @demongummies 
Kamen - Platypus Crew
Able Sisters Kalimba Cover, by @KalimbaChan 
Cinnabar Island Theme Remix, by @Luigigigas 
Uwa!! So Holiday♫, by Toby Fox
Chocolate ; Butter ; Pancake, all three by @LuKremBo 

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