Ive said for years that I think white parents do their kids a better service socially by allowing their children to date with GUIDANCE. My classmates got to attend family dinners, chaperoned hangouts, etc. They werent shamed out of normal emotions like being attracted to someone. It was all shame for me and my friends from our parents. And it left us unprepared for the world.
No. That doesn’t take away that SHE should have been checking HER child’s homework.
Two college educated parents, proclaimed to the principal she is a NYT writer, all them books in that house. They have one child. The homework should have been checked nightly. Period.
Stop it.
I'll be honest.
The number of educated Black women who think that "representation" and having their kids hair affirmed is more important than teaching their kids how to read and do math is not negligible.
they purposefully didnt tell their child abt the SHSAT……… when a big reason the schools are skewed towards admitting white and asian students is a lack of awareness abt the test and preparation for it. that’s actually insane.
i do wanna know why she just didn’t put her kid in private school and in jack and jill like every other upper middle class black family outside of feeding her own ego lol
Guys, I’ma save yall the think pieces. She thought she could help them kids with her social mobility & then neglected her kid by keeping her in that school. The END.
like she keeps going "i could fix the system, i had to live my ideology for book tours" then her daughter is like "hey mom they don't give us homework, i can't do algebra" and she's like, don't worry mommy will send a sternly worded email reminding them i write for the nytimes
the one last thing i’ll say about the nikole hannah-jones piece.
as someone who was homeschooled, i can assure you that Many people are sacrificing their children’s education on the altar of their political convictions.
the concept of sending my child to a poorly performing school as some sort of performative progressive act, and then seemingly failing to make sure she was meeting or exceeding benchmarks, is simply not something i would ever do. but we all make our own choices in this life.