04/17/2026
Miss Selma's School - https://abandonedar.com/miss-selmas-school/ (DEMOLISHED) Read Full History and See Over 50 Photos
This one was hard to write.
Miss Selma's School operated in Little Rock for 65 years. Three generations of families. A legacy built on one simple belief: every child can succeed. We walked through the doors and found it frozen in time. DVDs labeled by hand. Class of 2009. Class of 2011. Uniforms still hanging. A memory quilt still on the wall.
It closed in 2021, not because of money or covid, but because a trusted teacher's assistant used his position to harm children in his care, in their own classroom, and documented it himself. The FBI came for him in 2021. A federal judge gave him 90 years in 2023.
Selma Ratley spent a lifetime building something rooted in the belief that every child could succeed. Shenker spent four years dismantling it from the inside. History has a way of silently disappearing and I, for one, was glad this one had a witness.
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