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Denise Armstrong helps her son, Timothy, 8, pick out a book
in a local library in Richmond, Va., Thursday, Dec. 1,
2005. |
Denise Armstrong decided to home school her daughter and two sons
because she thought she could do a better job of instilling her values in
her children than a public school could. And while she once found herself
the lone black parent at home-education gatherings that usually were
dominated by white Christian evangelicals, she's noticed more black
parents joining the ranks.
"I've been delighted to be running into people in the African-American
home-schooling community," Armstrong said.
Home-school advocates say the apparent increase in black families
opting to educate their children at home reflects a wider desire among
families of all races to guide their children's moral upbringing, along with growing concerns about issues
such as sub-par school conditions and preserving cultural heritage.
"About 10 years ago, we started seeing more and more black families
showing up at conferences and it's been steadily increasing since then,"
said Michael Smith, president of the Home School Legal Defense
Association, a national advocacy group.
Nationwide, about 1.1 million children were home schooled in 2003, or
2.2 percent of the school-age population. That was up from about 850,000,
or 1.7 percent, in 1999, according to the U.S. Department of Education's
National Center for Education Statistics. A racial breakdown of home-schooled students isn't yet
available, the center said.
However, the Home School Legal Defense Association says the percentage
of black home-schooling families has increased, though hard numbers
weren't available.
The numbers are still very low because most black families lack the
time or economic resources to devote to home schooling, said Michael
Apple, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin who tracks
home schooling. He said much of the increase is seen in cities with
histories of racial tensions and where black people feel alienated and
marginalized.
Some families decide to do it because public schools don't adequately
teach African-American history and culture, some want to protect their
children from school violence, "and for some, it's all of this and
religion," Apple said.
Armstrong said she wants her children - ages 12, 10 and 7 - to have a
"moral Judeo-Christian foundation" that public schools can't provide.
"I felt that my husband and I would be able to give more of a tutorial,
individual learning situation than a teacher trying to address 40 kids at
one time," said Armstrong.
She said she also was concerned that schools wrongly label some black
boys as learning-disabled while white children with similar behavior are
not.
(Agencies)
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