8080sport The latter view holds that, to the extent that a public school itself promotes the majority religion, the state is responsible of coercive interference in the lives of the person. What started in the residing room of the abandoned Oaks Plantation before the first school house was built, ultimately grew to become a 50-acre campus (the land was donated by freedman and future businessman, Hastings Gantt) with 19 now-historic buildings, {includ.