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Nikita Bush's career as a public school teacher came to an end when she faced the decision of how to educate her own children. Having been told for years that American public schools would eventually get better for black children, the number of African-American homeschooling parents like Ms. Bush has doubled in little over a decade.
As Patrick Jonsson of the Christian Science monitor reports, studies show all kinds of public school problems disproportionately affect black children, and many parents have decided to take matters into their own hands. Even single parents are forming co-ops to make it possible to educate their children together outside of the public school system.
What do you do when you feel the system is failing your child and their education?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @11:18AM
That, too, is misleading as the amount of involvement required by home-schooling parents is much higher than that required by parents who shove their kids off on the public schools.
It's still an idictment against the public schools that they produce such horrific results even after spending much more time with the kids than the (presumably) working parents do, particularly if you count time "wasted" sleeping.