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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 fraxinus-tree on Monday August 22 2016, @03:24PM
Schools generally suck these days, it is not only US and it is not only publicly-funded ones. At least, the picture here in post-soviet Bulgaria is not better. The school is a complex balance of education, indoctrination and socialization (and other things). The balance is long ago destroyed and it manifests by less and less correlation between education and quality of life. Well, Finland or Japan may be different, but they are just exceptions.