Nikole Hannah-Jones Regrets Sending Daughter to Brooklyn Public School After Nearly 10 Years
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Updated · Fox News · Sep 24
Nikole Hannah-Jones Regrets Sending Daughter to Brooklyn Public School After Nearly 10 Years
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 24
Summary
Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote that she failed her daughter by enrolling her in a high-poverty Brooklyn public school, saying the decision left her child in classrooms with low standards and weak discipline.
In her New York Times essay, she described disinterested teachers, unchecked homework and repeated behavioral disruptions, concluding that her effort to live out pro-public-school ideals came at her daughter’s expense.
The piece revisits a choice Hannah-Jones had defended since at least 2016, when she sent her daughter to the local school even as many middle-class neighbors in Bedford-Stuyvesant opted out.
Her account lands in the middle of a broader fight over school choice, selective admissions and discipline in New York City, where debates over charters, gifted programs and screened schools remain politically charged.