This NYT article makes me so angry
The anecdote where Najya thinks she's done well on a math test only to find out she's failed is heartbreaking. The fact that this apparently happened repeatedly is why I do put a lot of the blame on Hannah-Jones. I don't understand how sending emails and scheduling lots of meetings with ineffective administrators was going to resolve the much deeper issues at the school.
I also attended local public schools k-12. My high school had a very racially and culturally diverse student body, with a high percentage of students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. My parents felt like the schools were not teaching math adequately. So, I was homeschooled in math, but attended classes for all of the other subjects. They knew they couldn't fix the system so they worked with what they could.
While I definitely agree that public schools need to be better, we also have to work with what they are right now.
Here's the archive link to the original NYT article for those of you who missed it:
In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own