The training school actively selected out the poor and undisciplined rather than reforming them.

Evidence

In the section, “Don’t Send Them to Us,” Burroughs reported that the moral standard of the school demanded only the best girls, not “other peoples’ neglected impossibles.” — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 1665

Categorization

• XREF: Contradicts the uplift-to-the-masses framing: the school refused the very girls most in need, echoing the class-privileged-exclusion claim from chapter 42. — connects to: Spelman founders justified industrial training as correcting assumed black indolence — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 181