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There is a growing movement of African-American parents who prefer to home school their children, and the National Black 蜜芽传媒 Educators organisation says its membership has doubled during the pandemic. Ten percent of homeschoolers are African-American.

Angela Valentine is the mother of a 12 year old boy, living in Chicago. She is trying to create a home school co-op, a community of other African American families in her city who are teaching their children at home. She told Newsday why she took her son out of school: 鈥淗e would be looked at differently being an African American in that setting. We were beginning to get calls from the (school) administration saying 鈥測our son is in our office, he was caught doing this and he was caught doing that鈥�, and when he told us his side of the story he said 鈥淚 was just dancing and cutting up in the line and all my friends were doing it too, but I was the one that got called out.鈥�

Photo: Angela Valentine with her son Dorian