Problem we had was getting black parents to participate in anything beyond if star could play football
We’d offer to go get the grandma and bring her to the school
They simply had around 10% the involvement white parents had
I dealt with this for a decade in Nashville in PTO stuff
Bought 1000s of dollars to replace the rags uniforms urban black grade schoolers had
They were happy with that but were disinterested in the humdrum of school plays and programs or tutoring and so forth
My kids were in arguably Nashville’s richest public grade school and we had MECO black kids bused out for demographic parity.....
A few years back someone....brought suit against that and they stopped
Families who go to church and have a strong Christian faith do very well with homeschooling. Through the years, we met families of all backgrounds. The vast majority of the black homeschool families were very involved in their churches, and those parents held their children to high standards. The way they raised their kids was impressive. All those kids (that I met) turned out well, too.
Those are the families that homeschooling really appeals to.
Homeschooling tends not to appeal to parents who want their kids to be athletes. Usually, you have to be a student at the school to play on the team.
Homeschooling doesn’t appeal to most parents because they think of school as an “experience” that they don’t want their kids to miss out on.
And most parents figure, put the kids in public school, that’s what it’s there for.