Daily Press, Richmond, VA: Growing number of black families attracted to home schooling
The increase of black families opting to educate their children at home, home-schooling advocates say, reflects a wider desire among families of all races to guide their children’s moral upbringing, but it also reflects growing concerns about issues such as subpar school conditions and preserving cultural heritage.
Michael Apple, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin who tracks home schooling, said that the numbers are still very low because most black families lack the time or economic ability to home school. Much of the increase is seen in cities with a history of racial tensions, and where black people feel alienated and marginalized, he said.
Some families decide to do it because public schools don’t all adequately teach African-American history and culture, some want to protect their children from school violence, “and for some, it’s all of this and religion,” Apple said.
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