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posted by martyb on Monday August 22 2016, @08:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the those-who-can,-do dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @05:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @05:58PM (#391757)

    My mod points are getting thin so I'd like to give you a virtual +1 completely and utterly agree. I feel I'm in the same boat. A few years ago it seemed like racism was over, we (non-racists) had won, and some people who just wanted handouts needed to shut up. Then the sheer volume of idiots on the internet, in police forces, at political rallies, on national TV and radio, on the freaking streets shouting crap really made me pause and open my eyes.

  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 22 2016, @06:41PM

    I got a couple left. +1 Interesting because it is and +1 Agree is not how you're supposed to use mod points.

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