Faubus smoldered. At the end of the school year, he could stand it no more, and decided to take matters into his own hands. A sign appeared outside the high school with the lie: this school closed by order of the federal government.[11] The high schools in Little Rock would be closed altogether the following school year. Rather than having troops at the school every day, Faubus decided that they just wouldn’t have school. Closing school for everyone was better than sharing the white schools with Black children, he reasoned. (Except football—that was allowed.)
