Proactive Parenting in Private Schools: A Call to Black Parents from the Battelfield
Gone are the days (if they ever existed) where parents could consider their job done when they deliver their child to a "good" school. Often times, though the school has excellent academics, there are factors that diminish its effectiveness in bringing that excellence to, and out of, the Black child. Unfortunately, the task falls on the parent to be aware of and combat these factors in order to maximize the child's school experience. Such factors as cultural/community dissonance, racialized treatment and double standards of expectation, and socioeconomic disparity exist in the private school setting and take their toll on the psyches and lives of Black students. ("racialized", a term I borrow from Janice E. Hale's must read, Learning While Black, means essentially coming from race-based bias.) I could write a book about each one of these factors...and many books, like Learning While Black, have been written. But let's get to the crux of the matter:
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