That's what Nikole Hannah Jones did to her child and now regrets it.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/09/the-tragedy-of-nikole-hannah-jones.html

Is this on the edge of neglect?

Sad part is that you have resident liberals like 303bear, FLunaticbear, lil jr, fubar, quash, franky galvin, Tempus rectum that would do similar things at the expense of their children to virtue signal for things they do not care about

https://www.boredpanda.com/new-york-times-journalist-nikole-hannah-jones-regrets-sending-daughter-struggling-schools/

[The activist journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, author of the fraudulent '1619 Project,' faces a complex reality about educating her smart daughter, Najya. You really want to read this one (and, like all NYT articles from me, is unlocked). Hannah-Jones and her husband, a "successful upper middle-class family," in her own words, put their nerdy, bookish little girl in a poor, predominantly black NYC public school for reasons of ideological principle.

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Faraji and I felt an obligation to make educational decisions based on the collective good and not just our individual advantage. New York is considered one of this nation's most liberal cities, while operating a school system that is among the most racially segregated. This segregation exists because policymakers and affluent parents - even those who profess a belief in integration and equality- shed their advocacy at the schoolhouse door and refuse to take or support any substantial action to integrate the city's schools. Faraji and I decided that our role in this struggle meant upending the status quo and sending our child not to a wealthy white school but to a poor Black one.

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It was a disaster for the child, who is now a teenager furious at her parents for ruining her chance to get a good education. For example:

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But my child just shook her head, her face a mask of disbelief, and something else: betrayal.
"So you had money to send me to one of the best schools, and you chose not to?" she said, hurling her words. "Because other kids are disadvantaged, you didn't want to put me in a great school?"
Najya was asking what I'd accomplished by not choosing the "best" school for her. And the honest answer is, I don't know. When it comes to the choices my husband and I have made about public education, these days I feel that I failed both my values and my child.

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What was so bad about these schools? One example from a story that's full of them:

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Toward the end of first grade, Najya started sometimes saying she didn't like her school and complaining how chaotic it was at lunch. I decided to visit during the lunch period and was shocked by what I saw. Najya's class and another class were sitting at their tables in the cafeteria with no lunch and no adult supervision. Children were running wild, chasing, hitting and pushing each other while the teacher's aides and cafeteria workers stood by looking bored.
Several times, I had to instruct children to stop striking each other and to sit down, at one point physically pulling two boys apart. When I asked one of the aides why the children weren't being supervised, she told me the lunch period was short-staffed. After I sat back down with Najya, she told me, "It's always like this, and that's why I don't want to go to this school."
It was not the children that horrified me kids of all incomes are rambunctious at lunchtime. It was the callous disregard of the adults. Students respond to the high or low expectations of institutions and the grown-ups who operate them, and it was clear that these children were getting the message.

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NHJ doesn't quite realize that middle-class parents of all races pay lots of money to get away from kids like those who don't know how to behave in a school lunch room, and school staff who cannot be bothered to care. Najya's anger comes from her parents caring more about their racial-equality principles, which are not based on reality, than the welfare of their own daughter.
It got pretty bad. For example, in that first elementary school, Najya thought she was good at math. Turns out her teacher wasn't grading her math homework. The poor child had no idea how incompetent she was. The Hannah-Joneses put her in a better school, but this turned out to be one that, while administered by a good principal, was full of teachers who spent most of their time doting on disruptive students rather than focusing on the kids there who really wanted to learn (even today, NHJ calls this "good educational practice").
So they sent Najya to a middle school that practiced open admissions, meaning they didn't turn away any child who showed up. It wasn't a lot better. Later, NHJ visits the principal, a woman NHJ praises named Emily Paige (who, I'm guessing by her name, is white). Paige is reduced to tears as she realizes that her school failed kids like Najya, who really wanted to learn, by prioritizing the troubled kids who really didn't:

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She paused. I could see the pain of this admission etched in her face. "It is important to not, in our pursuit of being antiracist, lower expectations," she told me. "Because this is what happens, right? It's racism under the guise of antiracism."

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In the piece, NHJ still can't let go of the idea that the reason these predominantly black and poor schools perform so poorly is because they don't receive enough funding. You know how much NYC spends per public school student annually? About $35,000. That's a lot. But it NHJ World, black students can't fail; they can only be failed. Nowhere in this story do the parents of all those failing students come up as a factor.
I've told in this space before stories about idealistic young white liberals I know who chose to teach in predominantly or entirely black schools, where most of the students were poor, or relatively poor. All of them were traumatized by it. They were traumatized by the culture of contempt black teachers had at these white interlopers, and de facto contempt they had for their own black students, who favored racial solidarity over doing what was right by an individual black student (I'm thinking about the brilliant black kid at one of these schools who scored a perfect 1600 on his SAT, and who was encouraged to apply to the Ivies by his white teachers; the black guidance counselor instead convinced him to attend an academically bottom-of-the-barrel HBCU, out of a sense tribal obligation.)
And they were shocked by how difficult to impossible it was to engage poor black students who came from homes where, unlike the Hannah-Jones home, parents cared nothing about education. For that matter, I was once told a story by an older black woman from a family that felt strongly about education every one of her children earned advanced degrees who, on the day her youngest child told her that he had decided to stop with his master's, quit her job in the all-black public school where she had spent her lifetime teaching. She told me that she realized she no longer had to put up with these uncaring kids and parents who saw teachers as the Enemy, and treated them abusively.
Reading the NHJ essay, I thought back to an essay I read many years ago by Jim Schutze, the uber-liberal but spicy city columnist at the Dallas Observer. Jim used to give me hell for my conservative columns in the Dallas Morning News when I lived there. I remember, though, that Schutze, though a longtime fierce advocate for Dallas public schools ("DISD" is the acronym for them), wrote a piece that I cannot find online, in which he tartly observed that pretty much the only kinds of parents who showed up to demand that their kids' public schools be run better were white ones. As I recall, it pained him to admit it, but he did admit it.
I did find this Schutze column online, from the mid-2000s, in which he observed something similar to what NHJ does. Excerpt:

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For 30 years an unquestioned article of faith at DISD headquarters has been that too much emphasis on excellence leads to an unhealthy form of elitism. By this formula, excellence equals elitism equals racism. That's why, for example, the Talented and Gifted program has always been a sort of abused sibling within the family of programs at DISD.

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NHJ ends her New York Times piece as only she could: by blaming "segregation" and the System. But what is a system made up of but people people who have certain ideas what education is?] - Rod Dreher

Danielsjackson114 said:

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Sad part is that you have resident liberals like 303bear, FLunaticbear, lil jr, fubar, quash, franky galvin, Tempus rectum that would do similar things at the expense of their children to virtue signal for things they do not care about

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maybe, and for those that wouldn't sacrifice their own kids, most libs are complete hypocrites, they would just send and sacrifice other people's kids, and tell you it's the right thing. They don't give a rip about right or wrong, they only care what the TV tells them to care about.

And the husband sat there and allowed the loony mom to do this to his daughter

You are correct.

They enjoy everything from their HOA gated communities and top schools, and call you racist when you enjoy the same things

In most liberal couples, the guy is a beta male because it is racist to be a masculine man or some **** like that

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And the husband sat there and allowed the loony mom to do this to his daughter

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Yep, liberal white men are too weak to stand up for what is right, so they just submit and start to believe nonsense.

Any man who says biological males belong in women's sports - definitely a liberal - and definitely not a real man. It's a litmus test. One of many, but that's just one of the easiest.

That is her. Is anyone surprised? She is the quintessential libtard

Not even the jolly green giant is that stupid

This " It was not the children that horrified me kids of all incomes are rambunctious at lunchtime. It was the callous disregard of the adults"

We know liberal parents are horrific parents

The sht you all expose little kids to in the name of wokeism

That is why I pray to God you nor any other resident liberal lunatic has children under their wing

The fundamental problem is liberals oppose solving problems. The entire business model depends of keeping the grift going. Additionally, they view things like public schools as taxpayer-funded advocacy centers so they can pay teachers to agitate and do political work.

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We know liberal parents are horrific parents

The sht you all expose little kids to in the name of wokeism

That is why I pray to God you nor any other resident liberal lunatic has children under their wing

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Yep, trusting your kid to a liberal is like trusting your kid to a predator - they will absolutely mess them up in the head.

Exposure to pronouns, CRT, drag shows, woke cartoons

Interesting he is blaming every other adult for every other thing except the adult where this originated

Crazy mental gymnastics

"Daughter feels she was cheated"

This is incredibly sad and insane at the same time

Danielsjackson114 said:

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That's what Nikole Hannah Jones did to her child and now regrets it.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/09/the-tragedy-of-nikole-hannah-jones.html

Is this on the edge of neglect?

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So given your sexual confusion, I would assume you are ok with Gay Adopption?

The Didn't Earn It "journalist" used her daughter as a prop for her professional virtual signaling.

This article is her just admitting everything she has been selling is a lie before she gets outed by an actual journalist.

Contra what Pulitzer Prize-winning MacArthur Genius Nikole Hannah-Jones has been telling gullible New York Times subscribers for a dozen years, America doesn't spend less on black public school students than on white students:https://t.co/awyxPjjvpi pic.twitter.com/NUfvRNld9o

— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) September 21, 2026

This is exactly right: https://t.co/cw0mpcPpkp pic.twitter.com/oSb5RzEsVL

— Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) September 22, 2026

race baiting liberals creating artificial problems??????

You don't say

Redbrickbear said:

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Contra what Pulitzer Prize-winning MacArthur Genius Nikole Hannah-Jones has been telling gullible New York Times subscribers for a dozen years, America doesn't spend less on black public school students than on white students:https://t.co/awyxPjjvpi pic.twitter.com/NUfvRNld9o

— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) September 21, 2026

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My guess is that minority students also tend to live in higher-cost-of-living areas. As long as we are focusing on NYC, it is true that per-pupil spending there is much higher than the rest of the country. But so is per-latte Starbucks. And per-pupil private school spending.

That is not to say that NYC schools don't have tremendous institutional problems, or that the root cause of most of them is poor parenting. I believe both of those things to be true. But saying that NYC (or any big city) should have "average" per-pupil spending ignores economic reality.

Many of you guys have the same blame-centric mindset that this looney has. Or had, because she put her money and even child where her mouth was, learned her error, and openly admitted it.

When all we seek is to blame, even our own failures fail to teach us anything. But there is something to be learned, and it is neither that the apathy and neglect of this forum towards the education of poor people works, nor that sacrificing the future of your child will work.

What can be gained, is the knowledge that each of us is ultimately responsible for ourselves, and our own, only. We can seek to help others, but what actually serves these poor and failing schools best, is to avoid them and seek the highest quality of education for ourselves and our own. We bring others up by setting the highest possible standard, not by debasing our children down to theirs.