Black families need control of their children’s K-12 education, says the Minnesota activist. The past year’s lockdowns might just make that happen.
by Nick Gillespie
Reason.com
“There isn’t an issue facing Black people today that doesn’t find its origins in K-12 education,” writes Chris Stewart, CEO of the education nonprofit brightbeam and a prolific writer and podcaster. “Without our own collective governance of our children’s intellectual development, how can we win? Without Black self-determination in who teaches them, what they learn, where they learn, and how lessons are taught to them, what is the future of our freedom?”
A Christian and a libertarian, the Minnesota-based Stewart says that school lockdowns over the past year have forced parents to become more involved in and attentive to their children’s education and may well lead to an exodus from traditional public schools. In a wide-ranging conversation with Nick Gillespie, Stewart also talks about why he believes that the government shouldn’t be in charge of curricula and why support for school choice will continue to grow despite efforts by teachers unions and education bureaucrats to maintain a failing status quo.