Why are African-American families different?
In recent years there has been a perpetual spotlight on African-American families that choose to homeschool. It is first and foremost a unique educational choice for African-Americans because of the long struggle it took to grant equal access to schools among all races. This alone marks a stark contrast between other families that choose to homeschool. It has always been taken for granted that, as parents, we would remain blindly loyal to public education because it took us so long to get there. As mentioned, however, times have changed, and so have the ideas of parents and their desires for their childrens education. With public schools continuing to fail African-American children at alarming rates, it is no wonder that families such as mine rely on other models of education. African-American families that homeschool are also unique because they take into consideration the way in which they want their children educated from a cultural standpoint. Many say that conventional schools lac
