Mom Sees More Black Families Homeschooling

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

La. Mom Sees More Black Families Choosing Home Education
By Jim Brown
March 23, 2005
(AgapePress) - Overstuffed classrooms, over-burdened teachers, and zero-tolerance policies -- those are just a few of the reasons Louisiana parent Joyce Burges and others in the black community are educating their kids at home. Feeling the public school system has failed them, more and more black families across the U.S. are choosing to home school their children.

Burges, who heads the National Black Home Educators Resource Association (http://www.nbhera.org/) (NBHERA), says home schooling is not as hard as many parents think. "There are so many opportunities now," she notes, "because home schooling has become so sophisticated."

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Bet the libbies aren't going to go rejoicing over THIS kind of diversity!

[DesertFox]

This gutsy lady will be duly be called Aunt Jemima, Tomasina and so forth.

[Melz]

Why though, is there a National Black Home Educators Resource Association?? Do they "home educate" differently than white people?

I am losing faith in schools that is true, I just don't know that I would be a great home-educator.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Why though, is there a National Black Home Educators Resource Association?? Do they "home educate" differently than white people?

No, but that's an interesting thought -- I never looked at it that way. However, I don't begrudge them having an association that meets and discusses their needs. I would say it must be especially hard on them as families of color to be different than most in your culture. I think MOST people think of homeschooling as a "white thing," and very rarely think of or refer to the black homeschoolers.

Homeschoolers come together as a unit MUCH better than even a government school PTA. I would venture to say, you will find MANY more homeschooling parents (BOTH parents) attending meetings re: their kids homeschooling education, than you will find parents of government (public) school students at a PTA meeting (at least I KNOW for a fact that's the way it is here in my county.)

Example: A special meeting was called by the local PTA to address parents on the upcoming "sex ed" curriculum to be "taught" 5th graders at our local elementary school. My nephew happened to BE a 5th grader at the time (last year). My Sister-In-Law and Mother-In-Law attended the meeting. Care to venture a guess at how many OTHER parents were there? Three. Two of which were married to each other (representing one student, their child), and the single-mom of another student. This out of a 5th grade class of 95 students. The last homeschool support group meeting I attended, there were 250 families represented -- they all attended (at least ONE parent, but predominantly both).

I am losing faith in schools that is true, I just don't know that I would be a great home-educator.

You don't have to be great, Melz, just committedly focused. It really is not as hard as people think it is. I have been doing it for 11 years now. Homeschooling does NOT equal school-at-home -- it becomes a way of life.

[PrezLeefun]

My mother once considered homeschooling me. Its a good thing she didnt though. I'd be dead by now if she had. lol