Leftist 1619 Project writer Nikole Hannah-Jones enrolled her daughter in struggling New York City public schools as a “sacrifice” and has revealed how angry it made her child.
She now "regrets" her decision, as her daughter struggles.
I wonder if she has any regrets for misleading millions of kids and their parents with her diabolic account of America's founding in her "Project 1619" lie?
Be informed, not misled.
Hannah-Jones wrote in an essay published Sunday in The New York Times Magazine that her teenage daughter, Najya, was far behind the other students after she was eventually allowed to enroll in a better high school, the New York Post reported Sunday.
The Post headline read: "Woke NYT, 1619 Project writer deliberately sent daughter to troubled schools as a ‘sacrifice’ — and it backfired spectacularly."
The Post said, "The writer behind the New York Times’ controversial 1619 Project deliberately sent her daughter to poor Big Apple schools as a “sacrifice” to try to boost the education system — and no one is angrier than the kid."
The teen is now “boiling” mad — badly behind her peers after finally being allowed to enroll in a more rigorous high school, her mother revealed in a bombshell bizarre essay.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, 50, enrolled her only child in two struggling Brooklyn public schools beginning in 2015 — as part of a battle to change what she characterized as systemic racism, despite having the “connections and time and status” to get the girl into the city’s best schools, she wrote in the Times Magazine on Sunday.
By her own account, Hannah-Jones’ daughter Najya knows she was cheated by her parents.
“So you had money to send me to one of the best schools, and you chose not to?” the girl yelled in one fight, according to the essay. “Because other kids are disadvantaged, you didn’t want to put me in a great school?”
Hannah-Jones wrote of her decision, “We thought by sending Najya to a mostly low-income and Black school, we could help improve it for all the children there.
This is a shining example of how leftist ideology fails every time.
The disadvantage she imposed on her daughter will follow the child for the rest of her life.
Did she really believe that by putting her daughter in a couple of different miserably failing schools, it would "fix" them?
This is leftist thinking at its lowest, most destructive level.
America, which was founded in 1776, not 1619, has never promised a certain outcome. Leftist ideology tries to control outcomes.
Our Constitution promises the "pursuit" — everyone gets the opportunity. By deliberately punishing a child, this leftist thought it would repair a terribly broken education system.
Amy Curtis, writing for Townhall, says, "Nikole Hannah-Jones, the author of the ahistorical, politically driven '1619 Project,' made a startling admission over the weekend. In a damning and heartbreaking article, Hannah-Jones admitted she knowingly ruined her daughter's education to serve a political agenda. For most parents, including this writer, the goal is to give their children a better life and better opportunities than they had."
She continued, "That's not to say this writer or other parents had bad childhoods. Quite the contrary. But every good parent wants their child to have something they didn't. Unless you're a leftist, it seems. In that case, your political agenda comes before the well-being of others, including your own offspring."
Hanna-Jones tries to explain: "I had braced myself for this moment, spent nearly a decade expecting it, preparing for it. When Najya was entering pre-K, my husband, Faraji, and I decided to send her to the type of school that wealthier families with choices uniformly avoid — one that is low-income and mostly Black. Our decision had been informed by values shaped by my years of reporting on the enduring and too often seemingly hopeless battle for school integration."
"But my child just shook her head, her face a mask of disbelief, and something else: betrayal."
“So you had money to send me to one of the best schools, and you chose not to?” she said, hurling her words. “Because other kids are disadvantaged, you didn’t want to put me in a great school?”
Najya was asking what I’d accomplished by not choosing the “best” school for her. And the honest answer is, I don’t know. When it comes to the choices my husband and I have made about public education, these days I feel that I failed both my values and my child.
It ends with a whisper, not a bang.
"Then one day in December, Najya came home and excitedly informed me that she had suddenly jumped three grade levels in reading in one month. Knowing that this was virtually impossible, I reached out to the school’s literacy coach and learned that after we began asking for the reading assessment, Najya’s teacher had instructed the coach to perform the evaluation and that she found Najya was reading just fine. What became clear to me was that Najya’s teacher had most likely never performed the school’s mandatory reading assessments for Najya or any of her classmates but instead had assumed the flagging competency of these mostly low-income Black children."
Takeaway
"Glancing between her and the road, I told her everything that I had said a hundred times on stages, in interviews, in discussions since I had made her a symbol of how the choices we make can help sustain — or dismantle — educational inequality," Hannah-Jones wrote. "Even if her schools were not academically the strongest, I explained, her father and I knew that we could provide for her tutoring and any other assistance to make up for what her school may have lacked."
Okay, but how does that help address the inequalities Hannah-Jones sought to "dismantle"? Surely most families at that school couldn't afford private tutoring, and it's clear the teachers weren't doing their jobs — whether out of laziness, incompetence, or some combination of both.
Now Hannah-Jones is "overcome with regret."
"Najya deserved better. They all did. But she was mine. This girl, my only child, looked to me to protect her, to give her what she needed to thrive. And I had not chosen her," she wrote.
And therein lies the heart of leftist ideology: they do not choose what is best for their own children. How can they possibly do that for you or yours?
Leftist ideology has never worked. It only destroys.
Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Engaged. Be Mindful. Be Prayerful.