If you have not read Nikole Hannah-Jones’s article that has gone viral about her child’s education, you should. Here’s a gift link to the New York Times.
Hannah-Jones authored the infamous and widely discredited “1619 Project” that most American historians across the political spectrum have repudiated. She and her husband got good educations in good schools. But they decided to send their child to a poor, mostly black school with low test scores. In Hannah-Jones’s words, “Faraji and I felt an obligation to make educational decisions based on the collective good and not just our individual advantage.”
Maybe we should say “the common” good, but either way, she put the interests of society ahead of the interests of her daughter, and her daughter discovered that her school was failing and was furious with her mother.
Credit where it is due, Nikole Hannah-Jones writes frankly and openly and admits her failures as a parent, to a degree. But I want to show you a video of her during a forum.
“A New York Times reporter in a high poverty school f**king changes the school right? There are just certain things are not going to happen in that school. I can go to that school and say there’s a problem and it gets fixed immediately.”
But does it?
She writes about her and her husband having to confront their daughter’s school and often times they did not get what they wanted. At other times they did. But they did not really.
She writes about the transition from elementary school to a middle school with an excellent principal who got rid of homework. Her daughter thrived and excelled in math. But in ninth grade, her daughter chose to go to a mostly white school and…
