Clergyman offers Latino families homeschooling option
BevK December 6th, 2006
http://www.courierpostonl…063/1004/LIVING
This article on Latinos homeschooling in New Jersey gave me a mild case of whiplash, but at least they’re talking homeschooling.
The preacher offered the parents classroom and meeting space at Bethel United Methodist and Rosedale Baptist churches, both in Pennsauken, resources such as curriculum books, access to computers and guidance on creating a coalition of parent-teachers.
At age 16, he said, the students can even take classes at Camden County College.
But, he said, parents need to do the bulk of the work.
“We’re not proposing we open a school, we’re proposing that if parents want to educate their children at home we have a network to provide the resources,” he said.
He said it didn’t matter to him that some of the kids in the room claimed they were being victimized in school largely by blacks.
“Camden people have grown up together,” he said. “We suffer together. We celebrate together. We get in trouble together.”
“If we’re not effectively educating our children,” then it’s going to “victimize black, Asian, Hispanic and white children,” he said.
Cordero has already recruited two teachers, including one who is a substitute teacher in the Camden district. He said home schooling won’t last forever.
“This will be temporary until the schools are safe,” he said. “If your neighborhood schools are dangerous and not teaching our students, that’s a violation of our constitutional rights.”
