Woke NYT, 1619 Project writer deliberately sent daughter to troubled schools as a sacrifice and it backfired spectacularly

The writer behind the New York Times’ controversial 1619 Project deliberately sent her daughter in poor New York City schools as a “sacrifice” in an attempt to help the struggling eduction system.But now the teen is boiling angry — and badly behind her peers finally being allowed to enroll in a more rigorous high school, she revealed in a bombshell essay.Nikole Hannah-Jones, 50, enrolled her only child in two struggling Brooklyn public schools beginning in 2015 — as part of a battle to change what she characterized as systemic racism, despite having the “connections and time and status” to get the girl into the city’s best schools, she wrote in the Times Magazine Sunday.That status included top-notch education of her own and financial security — she and her husband bought a $1.5 million Bed-Stuy brownstone in 2018 — but she still decided to offer up her daughter’s education for the cause of bettering the experience of black students in city schools.By her own accounting, Hannah-Jones’ daughter Najya knows she was cheated by her parents.“So you had money to send me to one of the best schools, and you chose not to?” the girl yelled in one fight, according to the essay.“Because other kids are disadvantaged, you didn’t want to put me in a great school?”“We thought by sending Najya to a mostly low-income and Black school, we could help improve it for all the children there,” Hannah-Jones said of her decision.

“We believed strongly that if families like ours went into schools like this one, it would challenge other families with similar values to do the same.”“I felt an obligation to make educational decisions based on the collective good and not just our individual advantage,” she added.But after years at the schools — PS 307 and Urban Assembly Unison, a specialty middle school — Hannah-Jones discovered her sharp-witted daughter lacked the basic skills to keep up in high school.And the girl was furious her own family pu...