More African-American parents are educating their kids at home
BevK April 23rd, 2007
The African proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child,” is finding new application among African-American parents who are opting to educate their children at home. But these parents are choosing their own village, rejecting a public education system they believe at first denied them and later failed them.
Cheryl Fields-Smith is conducting a two-year study into black homeschooling in the southern states. She was in Chicago recently to talk about the study and called the homeschooling movement among African-Americans “an extreme form of parental involvement.”
Unaware of the African-American homeschooling population, Fields-Smith stumbled upon a black parent in Georgia who introduced her to others, which led to her current study of 36 African-American homeschooling families.
