Posted on 09/27/2006 1:32:57 PM PDT by churchillbuff
A desire for more rigorous academics and greater emphasis on black history also has led black families into home schooling, educators say.
Although home-schoolers often are stereotyped as white and evangelical Christians, in 2003 about 9 percent of home-schooled students were black, and 77 percent were white, compared with a total student population nationwide that was 16 percent black and 62 percent white.
The numbers of black and white home-schoolers rose about a third from 1999 to 2003 to encompass about 1.3 percent of U.S. black students and 2.7 percent of whites.
Researchers say the number of black parents who are home schooling their children may be growing even faster.
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I can see a problem with this. IMO the biggest p[roblem with public school blacks is parents who take no interest in their children getting an education.
Now if you take away the kids who's parents care that they get an education. What is left?
Serfs leaving the plantation. Better watch your back.
Some people just can't get past the color of someone's skin. Sad.
Normally I would agree with you. In this case however, noting the increase in black homeschoolers may be appropriate
Another example is skiing. I live near Detroit with a huge black population. A few small local ski resorts have nearly zero black skiers. Should the population of black skiers rise, it would be appropriate to note that skiing is growing as a sport among blacks.
Homeschooling is a similar issue. In my experience as a homeschooler, we see a ratio of black homeschoolers smaller than the population at large. This ratio is actually growing though as black parents see the plantation effect on their children in the public school system.
As black families discover home education, their population will increase and it may become a faster segment of the population in general. If so, great.
Exactly what you had before. A bunch of teachers who aren't teaching and a bunch of students who aren't learning. The difference is that the kids whose parents care are not being penalized by having to be around those remaining.
Inner city schools are the worst example of government monopoly schools. Private schools are out of reach financially for these kids so their parents have NO choice. Result, these are the worst performing schools because they are a true and complete monopoly.
The homeschooling parents are doing everyone in these schools a favor by putting financial pressure on the schools to start performing in a way that benefits the kids, not the teacher's union. Until the schools have a reason to focus on the kids instead of the union, the union will win every time. That's why the teacher's union is so nuts about school choice.
My suspicion though is that this entire discussion is off the mark. We are both assuming that it's poor black folks who are homeschooling. I suspect it's actually middle class black families who comprise the bulk of homeschoolers and they already live in decent neighborhoods and have schools that, by government standards, aren't so bad (granted, the bar is low, but comparatively, they probably don't attend bad schools).
I wonder if BET is a mainstay of the black homeschool curriculum?
The Public Schools!
The public schools were always meant to be the BASELINE.. the abject minimum.. and that's ALL they ever WILL be.
If you have the means or ability to keep your kids out of public schools and don't... you are engaged in neglect and abuse as far as I'm concerned.
"Public" schools are to eduction, what Section 8 is to housing.
Before I left The People's Republic of California, I used to work with 2nd or 3rd generation Latinos who worked 22 jobs to send their kids to Catholic school and keep them out of gang-infested public schools.
I wonder if any of them (the 2nd generation Latinos, not the gang bangers) are homeschooling now?
One hopes that this means Black parents are fed up with the pablum fed to their children by White liberals with an elitist guilty conscience. Instead of empahsizing racial identity in education (something much more common than many of you imagine) these parents may want their kids to develop the cognitive skills needed to compete and succeed in the 21st Century.
Uh oh, blacks leaving the plantation. When Massa Hitlery comes to power homeschooling will be a target for regulation, big time.
By the way, black Americans have long been sending their kids to Catholic schools as well. In fact, in many inner city neighborhoods the Catholic schools are full of black Protestant kids whose parent's work their their butts off to put them there for one big reason. The public schools too often fail them and doom their kids.
This is no big deal. Blacks are growing from a much smaller base. The real issue is those who think the publick schools don't offer enough "Black history." I'd worry what kind of wierd madrassas these parents are going to inflict on their children. There is a definable segment of the Black population who come from a different planet, a planet far away where the CIA decides to commit genocide against poor Blacks by giving AIDS to rich white homosexuals. I know, it makes no sense whatsoever...I said they were from a different planet didn't I?
It was not always thus. Free public education was part of the warp and woof of the emerging American Republic, whose Founders realized that the Nation required an educated, moral populace. The public schools were written into early documents as a means to create following generations of free men--by teaching the original American "liberal arts"--ie, the tools necessary for free men to govern themselves.
It worked pretty well, actually, until the sixties, when the craven scum of the left addicted the school systems to federal money, and began to pull the strings of our next generation's destruction.
So, how is the huge black population in your home getting along?
Here's the deal. Local ski resorts have nearly zero black skiers because blacks are engaging in other hobbies.
Blacks are a small percentage of homeschoolers. Share your data.
There is no plantation. I see quite a number of blacks driving a Lexus, parking in handicapped spots, spending 100.00 plus on their hair, and toting bags of groceries to their vehicles.
Ban me, flame me, the days of the cottonfield is long over and I have no apology.
Not that I'm aware of.
There are homeschooling families with one kid and homeschooling families with 10 kids.
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