More Black families home-schooling because of CRT

since 2019 more than a million students have been taken out of American public schools some of the families deciding to homeschool when their children were sent home during the pandemic about a U.S census survey also found a noticeable spike in one particular group of families homeschooling citing worries about safety and what's not being taught in the classroom ABC's Steve Olson Summit with more Tyler Thomas and His 11 year old sister Zoe are just like most other children in America because they're running late for school this morning time to start food let's go but they don't have to go very far homeroom is in a room upstairs at home contractions remember we worked on contraction last week and since the pandemic more than a million other American families have joined the Thomases who've decided to pull their kids out of public and private schools and teach their children themselves in the school year that started in the fall of 2019 there were about 2.5 million homeschool students in America by the next school year deep into the Public Health crisis it was 3.7 million children for the school year that's starting now an estimated 5 million American children are getting their basic education at home when you look at the school system there's a traditional way of learning everybody is learning the same way but are we the same no we're different my brain process is different from where your brain processes she tells us that the needs of her children are a little different in part because they're children of color which helps explain something else that's new while the U.S census reports that the number of families choosing the home school have jumped in every group there was one group that stood out in Birmingham alone there are now enough black parents homeschooling their kids that they started a new community just in the last month we've had 43 new members join our community the kids grow up together Yolanda Chandler and Jennifer Duckworth are the mothers who lead the group and call themselves The Black homeschoolers of Birmingham Jamari my youngest son was actually a victim of racism in kindergarten first grade I was not going to give them the opportunity to break his spirit and that we walked away from that day and we never went back they told us they've seen way too many scenes like this one at a school in Orlando Florida [Music] where police hauled away a little black girl in the first grade after an assistant principal said she started kicking and screaming over sunglasses she wasn't allowed to wear and they say they're sick and tired of seeing kids running for their lives at school our goal is to create a safe space for black and brown homeschoolers to learn play and grow there are other parents who worry that schools are now being told to stop teaching the truth about racism in America and they point to these 23 states that either have new laws on the books or are considering new laws that would make it illegal to teach lessons that were just fine a few years ago about sex gender and racial history I believe the you know curriculums are is whitewashed be blunt and these families are offended that teachers could be told not to tell the true story of what happened to black people in Selma Alabama or during the Montgomery Bus boycotts anyone who might say you know you're a privilege to be able to teach your children this way what do you say to those folks well I honestly do think that I am privileged I'm grateful that we have the opportunity to do this you love your children I do love my children I I do I sacrifice for those babies just like my husband you know does for us as a whole but I do I love my children because they're my gift they're my reward and our thanks to Steve Austin saw me for that report well hey there GMA fans Robin Roberts here thanks for checking out our YouTube channel lots of great stuff here so go on click the Subscribe button right over right over here to get more of Awesome videos and content from GMA every day anytime we thank you for watching and we'll see you in the morning on GMA

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Keywords: black, children, crt, curriculums, families, home-schooling, homeschooling, p_cmsid=2494279, p_vid=news-92018535, parents, school

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Length: 4min 18sec (258 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 24 2022