Posted on 10/24/2021 6:44:32 PM PDT by DoodleBob
When you google “homeschoolers” most of the images that pop up show white, evangelical families. But there’s new evidence that the face of homeschooling is changing. Data from the 2020 Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey shows the number of Black families homeschooling has gone up five-fold in the last year, and it’s no different in Alabama.
When Jennifer Duckworth and her husband started their family 10 years ago, homeschooling was something they were always curious about, but it wasn’t until her oldest son was ready to go to kindergarten that they decided to start.
“My son, being a young Black boy with positive self-esteem about himself, can sometimes be threatening, for lack of a better word, to some teachers,” Duckworth said. “They’ll create an identity for the Black and brown children that they don’t even realize they’re doing.”
Duckworth was concerned that if her son were in public school her usually social and talkative child would start to withdraw. The 10-year-old said he feels safer homeschooling with his two younger sisters, Carleigh and Phoenix.
“It just feels great to be around kids like me so you don’t always have to be alone, like the odd person out,” Alexander said.
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Sequoia Watters-Parrish had always planned to homeschool, but the pandemic pushed her into it earlier than expected. She said she didn’t imagine the amount of support she’d receive.
“I really think African-American families thought that they would be alone if they homeschool,” Watters-Parrish said. “They had no outreach but [there are] so many resources out there.”
Through the Black Homeschoolers of Birmingham, Watters-Parrish said she was able to find a community of kids who didn’t make her son feel different because of his race. They often take field trips to museums or zoos together.
(Excerpt) Read more at wbhm.org ...
The article is by a PBS station, so has the expected ultra-liberal party-line thesis. They hardly mention at all the fact that public schools are failing and black parents (like any parent) do not want their kids in such a corrosive, low-performance environment.
Return their school taxes to them. Why should they pay for a system they don’t use?
“Black Homeschoolers of Birmingham”
Who is racist?
Black families have been homeschooling for many years. All the black homeschool families we knew were devout Christians, which seemed to be the main reason why they homeschooled. It’s sad to hear that these new homeschoolers might agree with CRT. I hate all this division. But, it’s their choice, their money, their family.
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