Nikole Hannah-Jones failed woke experiment Sept. 24, 2026

The Issue: Nikole Hannah-Jones’ essay on the poor results of choosing a bad school for her daughter.I can’t imagine why millionaire parents Nikole and Faraji Hannah-Jones would send their 5-year-old child to a failing New York City public school for a social-justice experiment (“Reality bites leftist,” Sept.23).Their daughter has every right to be mad after eight years of a selfish failed trial like this.Glenn McManusSunnysideWhat did this educated clown and her husband want to prove by sending their child to a failing public school?Sacrificing your child’s education in the name of bringing attention to the failing (union-run) public schools is dumb.

They should’ve sent her to a charter school where she could’ve gotten a better education.After all, they have the money and privilege, and are just as hypocritical as other lefties.Michael SantaviccaYonkersOnly a twisted leftist ideology could produce someone like Hannah-Jones.If she is so willing to sacrifice her own daughter’s educational prospects, health and safety to prove a point, imagine what she would do to everyone else’s kids.It’s called “Marxism.”Robert SpitalnickGreat NeckHow could they not have known — until high school — that their only child lacked basic milestones in her learning?No matter how Hannah-Jones and her husband spin this, they alone have failed their daughter.Jayne LeeRockawayHannah-Jones is right that New York City’s bastardized mash-up of “school choice” perpetuates segregation and insanity.But her article misses the fact that there is a much better solution than sending one’s daughter to schools that would disserve her: Empowering every family — not just those with financial means — to exercise real school choice.The path to real equity involves allowing $10,000 or more in state or federal tax money to follow every child to an excellent school of their choosing.

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