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The creator of the 1619 Project sent her young daughter to a struggling public school, convinced that upper-middle-class parents could lift it up. A decade later, the results are in, writes Coleman Hughes.
Just two years after Nikole Hannah-Jones claimed she “made the right choice” in sending her daughter to a social-justice-oriented Brooklyn middle school, the race activist is back in the New York Times admitting she “failed both my values and my child.
Hannah-Jones should be furious at the adults who failed her daughter. But she still defends them — calling school choice a racist scam and complaining about a lack of resources.
The conservative podcaster took apart Hannah-Jones’ recent article, titled “In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?,” which detailed her decision to send her daughter Najya to PS 307, a Brooklyn public school that is mostly black and low-income.
No institution in American life has perpetuated “systemic racism” quite as effectively as the big-city public school system. And no institution has fought harder to preserve segregated communities more than teachers unions.
Her daughter’s school failed not because of racism or segregation but because of bad pedagogy, the promotion of “equity” over standards, and zero accountability.
My own kids' experience in Title I, majority-Latino schools shows that race and income doesn't drive educational failure: Low standards and uncommitted teachers do.
Hannah-Jones' ideology did not just ruin her own daughter's academic potential by choice; it also poisons by force the educations of countless other students who attend the schools where the ideology has free rein.
by Laura Hollis at CDN - Author and activist Nikole Hannah-Jones published an emotional essay in the New York Times Magazine last week titled “In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?” In the piece, Hannah-Jones writes about the consequences of having deliberately selected a school fo…
