As more Black families opt out of public schools, they’re confronting the racist materials dominating the home education market and building alternatives

As more Black families opt out of public schools, they’re confronting the racist materials dominating the home education market and building alternatives

Extremists have taken advantage of limited regulation. Home school materials, particularly from Christian publishers, have been known for teaching creationism versus evolution.

Some home schooling material has described slave masters as “caregivers” for enslaved people and the practice of slavery as “Black immigration”.

Rightwing material remains a baseline throughout home schooling education, with some parents sharing even more hateful material with their children.

In February 2023, the Ohio department of education investigated a group of home schooling parents who reportedly dispersed pro-Nazi material in a local home schooling group.

  • unalivejoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    61·
    2 days ago

    I’m not sure if this is some plot to either say slavery is good because immigration or immigration is bad because slavery.

    • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
      17·
      2 days ago

      What they want to do is eliminate the concept of chattel slavery, imply we helped Africans to immigrate then taught them useful trade skills, and imply that black people should still be grateful to white people for this kindness

      They want to say this is a special immigration, it’s one we invited them in graciously to build out a workforce of laborers, but then their descendents became lazy criminals and are abusing welfare

      It’s all just racism and historical whitewashing. It’s not a coherent ideology, it’s racism dressed up enough to lead children to extreme racism without their natural empathy or logic getting in the way

      And the implication of all the prauger u stuff seems to be that we need to bring back slavery in some form, which would be easier if they remove the word slavery from the language

    • Thassodar@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      2 days ago

      It’s all the same plot, along with the “most slaves were happy to be taken from their terrible conditions and given shelter and food for just a little work (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞” bullshit.

      They want to dismantle the DoE so they can fill schools with this crap, and students are already doing worse due to rampant cheating during COVID and the proliferation of AI models making it even easier to cheat and never learn the material.

      I’m scared of what the new curriculum they have is going teach the next generation.