"In Baltimore, Staying Home for School"
An interesting vignette about the phenomenon of African American’s home schooling their children in Baltimore City by Jabari Asim, who writes for the Washington Post. The column was posted on the Washington Post’s web site Tuesday, September 12, 2006; 12:00 AM.
My hat is off to anyone who home schools their children. The task seems so overwhelming… He begins his column with:
"Write something positive about our school," my son's pre-kindergarten teacher urged me when we met for the first time last fall.
As a veteran of the Baltimore public school system, she was accustomed to loads of negative publicity about her employer. As a concerned parent, so was I. For that reason, my wife approached our entry into that world with considerable trepidation. Our experiences soon justified our initial fears.
Read the rest of Mr. Asim’s column here.
I wrote a column that touched upon schools as a campaign issue in this year’s Maryland gubernatorial contest in The Tentacle: “An apple for the governor.” You can find it here.
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