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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @05:23PM
It's as though we could remove the race of the person exercising power entirely. We would just need the skin color or presumed race of the people being discriminated against, even if that happens to be the same as the person using their power to discriminate.
I'm not thinking of any good examples of people who are black discriminating against people who are white (mostly because I cannot think of any good examples of people who are white suffering racial discrimination—the power component would establish that this cannot be just some idiot shouting crap about how white people are scum somewhere), but it would still hold in that instance, correct?