Home Schooling
There are a handful of homeschool collectives in New Orleans, and there have been smaller groups focused on African American children. A friend of mine, who teaches at Newman, has three children who are all A+ students. Her eldest child told me that the ones to fear in the Academic Games are the homeschooled African American kids.
I’ve thought very seriously about home school for Tin. He now goes to a school that began with 300 students and quickly grew exponentially. He’s been there since kindergarten to now – 5th grade – he began getting lost in the system around 2nd grade.
Today, we started home school because of COVID_19. Already, I know it’s a success. He had to read three chapters and then write a summary. He said in class he never reads. Never. Reads.
School might be the silver lining in this crisis.
