Nikole Hannah-Jones Laments Brutal Backlash to Essay on 16-Year-Old Daughter's Schooling
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Updated · Fox News · Oct 26
Nikole Hannah-Jones Laments Brutal Backlash to Essay on 16-Year-Old Daughter's Schooling
1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Oct 26
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Nikole Hannah-Jones said criticism of her essay on her 16-year-old daughter’s public-school education was “pretty brutal,” adding it briefly made her question publishing for the first time in her journalism career.
Last month’s essay revisited her decade-old decision to send her daughter to predominantly Black public schools to resist segregation, and said she now felt regret after her daughter told her she did not get the education she wanted.
Hannah-Jones said she ultimately stands by publishing because it forced attention onto children without a platform and pushed New York Mayor Eric Adams to promise a plan addressing the issue.
Corey DeAngelis of the Heritage Foundation said the backlash reflected anger that she put ideology over her child’s education, arguing school choice lets families leave failing schools instead of trying to reform them from within.