A federal court eventually ordered them desegregated. Within a few years, many white parents began taking their kids out of public school and enrolling them in private schools. Now, the public school system in Macon is predominantly black, and integration exists only in theory, not in practice.
Property taxes are the principal source of public school funds.
Because of Proposition 3, and reduced enrollment, public school funding in Georgia is now the lowest in the United States. Adam is a Junior at Jefferson Davis High School, in Macon. Most of the white children in Macon attend private school, as do a small percentage of the black children. Most of the private schools in Macon admit only white pupils, but some are non-discriminatory. Adam says he wouldn't go to a private school, even if he could get in.