Talk:Ridgeland, South Carolina

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Thomas Heyward Academy was objectively not opened by people affiliated with the White Citizens' Council; that is conjecture. There is no correlating evidence to sustain this in either of the citations listed. The second citation's only direct mention of Thomas Heyward Academy is a picture with a caption stating "Thomas Heyward Academy opened in rural Jasper County in 1970, the year that most districts in South Carolina desegregated under court order. It was one of dozens of private schools that opened to white students as the state resisted integration in the late 1960s and 1970s." There is no direct mention, whatsoever, of Thomas Heyward Academy in the second article. Clearly, no objective evidence is available that anybody involved with the founding of this school was "affiliated" with the White Citizens' Council. The only easily accessible information publicly available regarding the founding of this school is located at https://www.thomasheyward.org/about/history.cfm, which states that it was founded by a "group of businessmen and parents." If ANY concrete affiliation between a single, named member of a founder of Thomas Heyward Academy and the White Citizens' Council can be found, it should be verified and by all means cited, but there does not appear to be.
I will amend the article to better reflect the actual content of the current citations for the time being and I would like to request that an admin could lock this page as part of an accuracy and neutrality dispute on the part of a group of users attempting to selectively edit a large list of schools (including this one) to appear to have the aforementioned "affiliations" while posing no distinct evidence of such, but instead labeling them as "segregation academies" - an incorrect term, per the criteria established on the Segregation Academies article - as part of a non-neutral, non-objective measure. 
Thank you.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.5.52.198 (talk) 17:21, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Many sources about the school's founding exist in the school's article. In addition, the school was founded in 1970, the year most segregation academies popped up after the courts forced public schools to integrate. In order to make a statement, the school named itself after a man who held a very large number of slaves, nicknamed itself The Rebels and named their annual The Rebel Yell.Jacona (talk) 12:53, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV and Accuracy Dispute: Education: Thomas Heyward Academy