More Black parents in the U.S. and Missouri are choosing to homeschool their kids. These families shared their reasons why. (stlpublicradio)
This is how Miquilaue had long envisioned raising her family.
“There's experiences that I didn't have that I wanted them to have,” Young said. “More exposure to their culture, and more exposure to learning in a natural way that inspired them to continue learning rather than just regurgitating what they found in a book.” “So, I had decided to go back to school to get a degree in African American Studies and learn more about my history, my culture [and] my ancestors,” Young said. “It was pretty maddening to learn that the things that I was taught in high school were inaccurate.
She and her husband, Halbert, wanted to nurture that gift and decided to home-school their four kids. Things were great for about six years until money got tight, and Shalon, then a stay-at-home mom, had to go back to work. The couple enrolled their three oldest kids in a private Christian school where Shalon started working as an assistant kindergarten teacher, and their youngest started day care.
Not long after, all four Gates kids and Shalon transitioned back to home-schooling. It was a decision that not all of the kids welcomed. Their oldest daughter, 8-year-old Aamori, took it pretty hard.
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