Pastors leading black church communities are confirming the surge in the number of black families choosing private, small schools, and homeschooling for their children, and welcoming the opportunity for more involvement in K-12 education by black churches.
Pastor Cecil Blye of More Grace Ministries Church in Louisville, Kentucky, told Breitbart News he and his fellow pastors have seen a surge in homeschooling “among families in black churches in Louisville, as well as a push to start private schools and charter schools by black pastors.
Blye confirmed a recent report by the U.S. Census Bureau that showed homeschooling rates are rising among black families, in which the proportion of homeschooling in the black community increased from 3.3 percent in spring 2020 to 16.1 percent in fall 2020.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/24/exclusive-pastors-welcome-rise-in-private-and-homeschooling-in-black-communities/
Yawn.
Charter schools mean money.
We should publicly raise standards and provide curriculum for all levels of schooling. It will allow students who feel they are being miseducated by the uneducated (you didn’t homeschool did you, Ward?) no matter how depraved, or bigoted, or blinded by zealotry those instructors may be to have access to tools and plans they can use to prevent themselves from falling behind or or prey to a bullshit worldview. Access to facts and an open pathway towards learning should be considered human rights.
They
are human rights. The US has chosen not to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
https://www.humanium.org/en/convention/text/Only three U.N. countries have not ratified the CRC: Somalia, South Sudan, and…the United States.In particular, check sections Articles 13 (
this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of the child’s choice and 28 (on education, broadly).
But setting that can of worms aside, how do you propose we raise standards when we don't
have standards beyond at the individual state level? How do you propose we raise
those standards when it took a pitched battle to get 10th grade standards to graduate from high school... in what is often considered to be the best pre-collegiate education in the country!
We don't have teachers prepared to teach our most able students at most levels of education in the United States. We don't have guidance counselors trained to meet their needs, either emotionally or academically.
We
have the curriculum for them already. We just don't have distribution of that curriculum and seldom have folks trained in the delivery of that curriculum. Nor are our school administrators thrilled with bringing in those who
do have that training. (Been there, lost that battle more than once and not just on my own behalf.)
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