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Add The New York Post on Google The Issue: Nikole Hannah-Jones’ essay on the poor results of choosing a bad school for her daughter.
I can’t imagine why millionaire parents Nikole and Faraji Hannah-Jones would send their 5-year-old child to a failing New York City public school for a social-justice experiment (“Reality bites leftist,” Sept. 23).
Their daughter has every right to be mad after eight years of a selfish failed trial like this.
What did this educated clown and her husband want to prove by sending their child to a failing public school?
Sacrificing your child’s education in the name of bringing attention to the failing (union-run) public schools is dumb.
They should’ve sent her to a charter school where she could’ve gotten a better education.
After all, they have the money and privilege, and are just as hypocritical as other lefties.
Only a twisted leftist ideology could produce someone like Hannah-Jones.
If she is so willing to sacrifice her own daughter’s educational prospects, health and safety to prove a point, imagine what she would do to everyone else’s kids.
How could they not have known — until high school — that their only child lacked basic milestones in her learning?
No matter how Hannah-Jones and her husband spin this, they alone have failed their daughter.
Hannah-Jones is right that New York City’s bastardized mash-up of “school choice” perpetuates segregation and insanity.
But her article misses the fact that there is a much better solution than sending one’s daughter to schools that would disserve her: Empowering every family — not just those with financial means — to exercise real school choice.
The path to real equity involves allowing $10,000 or more in state or federal tax money to follow every child to an excellent school of their choosing.
This is the law in Texas and a growing number of other states — and that is no accident.
Hannah-Jones should join the chorus demanding such scholarships in New York.
As she admitted in her article, she has the means to change course for her daughter — and she did.
How many more decades should those who do not have to wait?
I’ve taught American history for 60 years at public and private schools across the tri-state area.
I’ve taught a Rhodes Scholar and a criminal, and I’ve learned that a student’s success is never guaranteed.
It all begins with parents, who are the first teachers a child has.
Do you really think these were good parents, or did they consign their child to failure due to their own pretensions?
Faraji Hannah-Jones says the New York City public schools are racist, and blames their failure on segregation.
Can he explain why so many New York City charter schools, which are full of minorities, are succeeding?
It’s not racism, it’s the lefty politicians he votes for who are failing students.
Instead of working with New York City Public Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels and the teachers’ unions to improve the schools, she’s rewriting history for attention.
How is Hannah-Jones sending her daughter to a struggling public school going to better the experiences of underprivileged black students?
A new “experiment” describing the real causes behind the failing public schools would have had much more of a positive impact.
A mother’s prime duty is to see the best outcome for her children, and NHJ failed.
Yet her husband claims this makes her the new MLK Jr. or Ida B. Wells of education reform.
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