Nikole Hannah-Jones’ failed woke experiment: – Latest News
The Issue: Nikole Hannah-Jones’ essay on the poor outcomes of selecting a unhealthy college for her daughter.
I can’t think about why millionaire mother and father Nikole and Faraji Hannah-Jones would ship their 5-year-old youngster to a failing New York City public college for a social-justice experiment (“Reality bites leftist,” Sept. 23).
Their daughter has each proper to be mad after eight years of a egocentric failed trial like this.
Glenn McManus
Sunnyside
What did this educated clown and her husband wish to show by sending their youngster to a failing public college?
Sacrificing your youngster’s schooling within the title of bringing consideration to the failing (union-run) public colleges is dumb.
They ought to’ve despatched her to a constitution college the place she may’ve gotten a higher schooling.
After all, they’ve the money and privilege, and are simply as hypocritical as different lefties.
Michael Santavicca
Yonkers
Only a twisted leftist ideology may produce somebody like Hannah-Jones.
If she is so prepared to sacrifice her own daughter’s academic prospects, health and security to show a level, think about what she would do to everybody else’s youngsters.
It’s known as “Marxism.”
Robert Spitalnick
Great Neck
How may they not have recognized — till high college — that their solely youngster lacked primary milestones in her studying?
No matter how Hannah-Jones and her husband spin this, they alone have failed their daughter.
Jayne Lee
Rockaway
Hannah-Jones is correct that New York City’s bastardized mash-up of “school choice” perpetuates segregation and madness.
But her article misses the truth that there’s a significantly better resolution than sending one’s daughter to varsities that might disserve her: Empowering each household — not simply these with financial means — to train actual college selection.
The path to actual equity includes permitting $10,000 or more in state or federal tax money to observe each youngster to an wonderful college of their selecting.
This is the law in Texas and a growing quantity of different states — and that’s no accident.
Hannah-Jones ought to be part of the refrain demanding such scholarships in New York.
As she admitted in her article, she has the means to change course for her daughter — and he or she did.
How many more many years ought to those that do not need to attend?
Janine Yass
Philadelphia, Pa.
I’ve taught American historical past for 60 years at public and personal colleges throughout the tri-state space.
I’ve taught a Rhodes Scholar and a prison, and I’ve discovered that a scholar’s success isn’t assured.
It all begins with mother and father, who’re the primary academics a youngster has.
Do you actually suppose these have been good mother and father, or did they consign their youngster to failure as a consequence of their own pretensions?
Joel Glazer
Elizabeth, NJ
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Faraji Hannah-Jones says the New York City public colleges are racist, and blames their failure on segregation.
Can he clarify why so many New York City constitution colleges, that are full of minorities, are succeeding?
It’s not racism, it’s the lefty politicians he votes for who’re failing college students.
Bruce Collins
Middletown, NJ
Hannah-Jones knew that her daughter was failing.
Instead of working with New York City Public Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels and the academics’ unions to improve the faculties, she’s rewriting historical past for consideration.
JJ Levine
Miami Beach, Fla.
How is Hannah-Jones sending her daughter to a struggling public college going to higher the experiences of underprivileged black college students?
A new “experiment” describing the true causes behind the failing public colleges would have had a lot more of a optimistic impression.
Mary Maresco
Manhattan
A mom’s prime obligation is to see the best final result for her youngsters, and NHJ failed.
Yet her husband claims this makes her the new MLK Jr. or Ida B. Wells of schooling reform.
Joseph Valente
Staten Island
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