Progressive Parents, Invisible Kids?

So today I'm going to talk about the article that Nicole Hannah Jones wrote for the New York Times a couple of weeks ago.

And I'm just getting around to it now because I had to process it for a minute based on some similarities in my own life.

She talks about her daughter's thoughts on her education.

And it's a follow-up piece to the piece that she wrote 10 years ago in 2016 about the decision she and her husband made to send their daughter to a high predominantly Black public school in New York City.

And they felt that they should do this because that would be being a good progressive rather than sending them to her to a school that, of course, they could afford.

So 10 years later, in her new essay, her daughter finally tells her truth about how she felt about that choice.

So let's break it down.

Nicole Hannah Jones and her husband chose this path because they believe their daughter as good progressives should actually be sending their daughter to a public school and a distressed public school at that.

And they would support the school and support her through this journey.

What's interesting is that, you know, Most parents, if they have the resources, will choose something different for their child, even though they believe in these progressive ideals.

But that's the hypocrisy of the situation.

And they chose not to do that.

They chose to, you know, if they believe in it, they were going to send her there.

So their

daughter

Naya, who was on the honor roll in middle school, when it came time to pick a high school, she had some thoughts on this.

And she said she wanted to go to the predominantly white public school that she would need to test into.

And that's the exact kind of institution that her parents had spent years, you know, holding up as the problem.

And I can personally relate to this because, um, you know, when she told what she told her parents was sometimes I wish instead of always thinking about other kids, you would have thought about me.