Black home schoolers push back against racist, unregulated curricula: ‘They called slavery immigration’

Mother helping her daughter with schoolwork in the kitchen at apartment. Photograph: FG Trade/Getty Images

In 2018, Dr Timberly Baker decided to home school her children after a local school in Arkansas failed to challenge her eldest child. Her daughter, Baker said, is gifted. But despite routinely testing off the charts during standardized exams, the school had no plan on how Baker’s daughter could take more advanced classes.

Still new to home schooling, Baker decided to use a Christian curriculum, solely due to its ready-made lesson plans and promise to produce a school transcript in case her children later enrolled into mainstream schools.