Why are more Black families homeschooling? [ theGrio with Eboni K. Williams segment]
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Wife and I seen the writing on the wall and my son seen the light. We are in the middle of a war on education and folks are too blind to see what's going on. I knew the writing was on the wall when almost half of the schools in Philadelphia were getting shut down. Why put your child through a crumbling system, when they can get their meat and throw away the bones from home.
TheGreatMTB
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it's funny they mentioned that statistic about black students being mislabeled for mental disabilities.
When I was in middle school my math teacher wanted to put me in remedial classes because I sat in the back and never said anything. She assumed I wasn't able to keep up with the rest of the students and her teacher's aid believed I was slow. Then one day they actually graded the homework we submitted for accuracy instead of completion and discovered I consistently had one of the highest scores in the class. Same held up for the exams.
She told my mom that story at a parent-teacher conference and joked about it. My mom is always polite in public, but got in the car and cussed her racist ass out the whole ride home...then she told me if I got anything less than an A in the class at any point in the school year I'd be grounded. At the time I thought it was harsh, but now that I'm older I understand what was really happening there.
It's sad. I'm hoping the future black youths can get optimal education free of prejudice, whether at home or in a school system.
When I was in middle school my math teacher wanted to put me in remedial classes because I sat in the back and never said anything. She assumed I wasn't able to keep up with the rest of the students and her teacher's aid believed I was slow. Then one day they actually graded the homework we submitted for accuracy instead of completion and discovered I consistently had one of the highest scores in the class. Same held up for the exams.
She told my mom that story at a parent-teacher conference and joked about it. My mom is always polite in public, but got in the car and cussed her racist ass out the whole ride home...then she told me if I got anything less than an A in the class at any point in the school year I'd be grounded. At the time I thought it was harsh, but now that I'm older I understand what was really happening there.
It's sad. I'm hoping the future black youths can get optimal education free of prejudice, whether at home or in a school system.
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Dipsey Doo
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Coli democ00ns ain’t gonna like this.
Black folks seem to think public schools are failing their children and are acting accordingly
Black folks seem to think public schools are failing their children and are acting accordingly
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The public school system in America is terrible, this is a good thing.
There will be parents that don’t know what they are doing of course, but the ones that do will provide a much better learning situation for their children.
Another concern is will a parent that doesn’t understand calculus be willing to learn it to be able to teach it to their children, or will they write it off as “something that people don’t use in the real world”
There will be parents that don’t know what they are doing of course, but the ones that do will provide a much better learning situation for their children.
Another concern is will a parent that doesn’t understand calculus be willing to learn it to be able to teach it to their children, or will they write it off as “something that people don’t use in the real world”
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Thanks for sharing the story.
I've made it a point to stress to my relatives the importance of attending PTA meetings. Have to show your face and interact with the people teaching your children.
@TheGreatMTB
Thanks for sharing the story.
I've made it a point to stress to my relatives the importance of attending PTA meetings. Have to show your face and interact with the people teaching your children.
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Modern era homeschooling Black parents would be at least the second generation to do so. They have access to what the pioneering groups did, and resources from educators who support the option. I'd imagine that there are some hybrid models for high school coursework.
I'm interested in how they prepare the kids for standardized state proficiency tests.
Amo Husserl
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Elle Seven
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Been homeschooling mine since day one. I used to teach and saw the power I had to sway my students (most of them anyway) to believe what I told them and realized I never wanted a stranger to have that much power of my children.
It's been great to see more black families join; the pandemic helped people see they could do it. We are no less capable than a teacher and, while homeschooling, you often end up learning things along with your children. It changes the entire culture of the home and how you look at learning anyway.
A lot of times, being successful falls more on the parents and our abilities to deprogram how we even look at what education and learning are. It is not a quick process, but I think the entire family is made better for it when parents focus on improving themselves first.
If you need more reason to question the public schooling system in this country and why to remove your children, on top of all the other foolishness that ensues in schools (i.e. shootings, LGBT agenda, teachers sleeping with students, programming to memorize/pass versus critically think/create solutions, etc.), here is the purpose of public schooling as ascribed by a white man (Alexander Inglis, Principles of Secondary Education, 1918) who is (presumably) talking about a majority white student body (so imagine what implications this has for our black children):
Inglis breaks down the purpose - the actual purpose - of modem schooling into six basic functions, any one of which is enough to curl the hair of those innocent enough to believe the three traditional goals listed earlier:
1) The adjustive or adaptive function. Schools are to establish fixed habits of reaction to authority. This, of course, precludes critical judgment completely. It also pretty much destroys the idea that useful or interesting material should be taught, because you can't test for reflexive obedience until you know whether you can make kids learn, and do, foolish and boring things.
2) The integrating function. This might well be called "the conformity function," because its intention is to make children as alike as possible. People who conform are predictable, and this is of great use to those who wish to harness and manipulate a large labor force.
3) The diagnostic and directive function. School is meant to determine each student's proper social role. This is done by logging evidence mathematically and anecdotally on cumulative records. As in "your permanent record." Yes, you do have one.
4) The differentiating function. Once their social role has been "diagnosed," children are to be sorted by role and trained only so far as their destination in the social machine merits - and not one step further. So much for making kids their personal best.
5) The selective function. This refers not to human choice at all but to Darwin's theory of natural selection as applied to what he called "the favored races." In short, the idea is to help things along by consciously attempting to improve the breeding stock. Schools are meant to tag the unfit - with poor grades, remedial placement, and other punishments - clearly enough that their peers will accept them as inferior and effectively bar them from the reproductive sweepstakes. That's what all those little humiliations from first grade onward were intended to do: wash the dirt down the drain.
6) The propaedeutic function. The societal system implied by these rules will require an elite group of caretakers. To that end, a small fraction of the kids will quietly be taught how to manage this continuing project, how to watch over and control a population deliberately dumbed down and declawed in order that government might proceed unchallenged and corporations might never want for obedient labor.
It's been great to see more black families join; the pandemic helped people see they could do it. We are no less capable than a teacher and, while homeschooling, you often end up learning things along with your children. It changes the entire culture of the home and how you look at learning anyway.
A lot of times, being successful falls more on the parents and our abilities to deprogram how we even look at what education and learning are. It is not a quick process, but I think the entire family is made better for it when parents focus on improving themselves first.
If you need more reason to question the public schooling system in this country and why to remove your children, on top of all the other foolishness that ensues in schools (i.e. shootings, LGBT agenda, teachers sleeping with students, programming to memorize/pass versus critically think/create solutions, etc.), here is the purpose of public schooling as ascribed by a white man (Alexander Inglis, Principles of Secondary Education, 1918) who is (presumably) talking about a majority white student body (so imagine what implications this has for our black children):
Inglis breaks down the purpose - the actual purpose - of modem schooling into six basic functions, any one of which is enough to curl the hair of those innocent enough to believe the three traditional goals listed earlier:
1) The adjustive or adaptive function. Schools are to establish fixed habits of reaction to authority. This, of course, precludes critical judgment completely. It also pretty much destroys the idea that useful or interesting material should be taught, because you can't test for reflexive obedience until you know whether you can make kids learn, and do, foolish and boring things.
2) The integrating function. This might well be called "the conformity function," because its intention is to make children as alike as possible. People who conform are predictable, and this is of great use to those who wish to harness and manipulate a large labor force.
3) The diagnostic and directive function. School is meant to determine each student's proper social role. This is done by logging evidence mathematically and anecdotally on cumulative records. As in "your permanent record." Yes, you do have one.
4) The differentiating function. Once their social role has been "diagnosed," children are to be sorted by role and trained only so far as their destination in the social machine merits - and not one step further. So much for making kids their personal best.
5) The selective function. This refers not to human choice at all but to Darwin's theory of natural selection as applied to what he called "the favored races." In short, the idea is to help things along by consciously attempting to improve the breeding stock. Schools are meant to tag the unfit - with poor grades, remedial placement, and other punishments - clearly enough that their peers will accept them as inferior and effectively bar them from the reproductive sweepstakes. That's what all those little humiliations from first grade onward were intended to do: wash the dirt down the drain.
6) The propaedeutic function. The societal system implied by these rules will require an elite group of caretakers. To that end, a small fraction of the kids will quietly be taught how to manage this continuing project, how to watch over and control a population deliberately dumbed down and declawed in order that government might proceed unchallenged and corporations might never want for obedient labor.
FromStLouis
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How do you make it work on one income, if one of the parents is staying home to teach?
Chrishaune
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It's one thing to take them out of the schools, but if you're still teaching them to be indoctrinated into paganism, you aren't changing their outcome.
Evolution is paganimsm.
Evolution is paganimsm.
Maybe 7 or 8 black families pool their money in to do like a group homeschool deal possibly??