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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) by Type44Q on Monday August 22 2016, @01:03PM
You dont need to be black; when we moved to a town where the public schools have the Ten Commandments hanging in the hallways and the teachers think that February 14th is known as "Valentimes Day," there was no fucking way those fat, stupid hicks were ejumakatin' our children...
In any case, perhaps next we can have an article about how blacks (not just people but specifically black people) are fed up with SystemD and are jumping ship to BSD...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 22 2016, @02:26PM
Now you're being silly. I don't know anyone in real life who uses a *nix operating system, aside from industrial applications. So, I don't know any black people who use *nix.
Don't even tell me about some black person you met on the intarwebs. Here, any of us can be whatever color we like. Ain't no white people, except for places like Stormfront, ain't no black people, no brown people. Maybe on Facebook you're still a member of a race, but not out here in the www - the wild wild west.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @03:46PM
I set next to a black Linux Syadmin at work, and know of several others in the building. If black was a higher percentage of the population here it likley would know more, which is why most of the admins here are Mexican or white.
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Monday August 22 2016, @06:18PM
Black guy I worked with (before he went to work for the Fed Reserve) used Fedora on his home computer.
Dad saw fit to make my entire family use flavors of Ubuntu derivatives. Mom dual boots so she can play The Sims, but I think that's about it.
Not trying to be contrary, just offering a couple anecdotes.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 2) by julian on Monday August 22 2016, @06:28PM
Being pedantic here, we're nerds talking about operating systems so you should expect that, but anyone using an Android phone is using a *nix OS; although it's such a denatured and restricted form that it barely counts in spirit.
:-)
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday August 22 2016, @07:04PM
where the ... schools have the Ten Commandments hanging in the hallways
Its interesting that when you replace the ... with "public" its supposed to be a national disgrace and the assumption is they're dumb as Fing rocks, but when you replace ... with "suburban white Catholic" its completely non-controversial the kids have slightly higher educational achievement and lower crime/failure rates (admittedly mostly by being private they can dump the real troublemakers into the public schools).
I'm just saying that when you find a failing school, I'm pretty sure the root cause of the failure isn't "Thou shalt not kill" hanging up in the hallway.
I'm not religious and wouldn't want to go there, which would suck if my tax dollars were paying for it, but I recognize they have their shit together, in general. I'm just saying the idea educational reform plan probably doesn't require a pogrom against Christians. Perfect? No, but that would be waaaaay down the list of things to worry about.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday August 22 2016, @09:37PM
I attended Catholic school for a few years when I was young. They did not hang the ten commandments in the halls. They actually did a good job of keeping the religious BS out of stuff. They even taught us sex ed starting in 6th or 7th grade (7th I think). It's the nutty fundamentalist protestants who mix crazy religion with their education. Lots of non-Catholic people have historically sent their kids to Catholic schools because the education quality was very good and it was easy to ignore the religion component.
I know some Catholics are pretty nutty (*cough* Santorum *cough*), but the churches I attended while growing up in the 80s (in white, upper-middle-class neighborhoods) seemed more like some kind of social club/obligation for people who didn't have very strong religious beliefs. And considering the families I saw all seemed to have 1 or 2 kids, it didn't seem like any of them paid much attention to the anti-contraception teachings.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @03:27AM
In any case, perhaps next we can have an article about how blacks (not just people but specifically black people) are fed up with SystemD and are jumping ship to BSD...
Actually, I'm black (not joking), and I'm beginning to like systemd! The new mount wrapper in the next release is thrilling!