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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Lifestyle
Mario Koran

‘No more skewed history’: why Black families homeschooling grew fivefold

woman and little girl sit face to face with a notebook between them
At Sankofa Homeschool Community/Collective, DeLise Bernard has her three children enrolled in courses that meet once a week. Photograph: The Washington Post/Getty Images

Since she began homeschooling her children in Louisiana in the early 90s, Joyce Burges has watched the practice explode in popularity among families like hers.

“Parents nowadays – this woke generation of 25- to 40-year-old parents – their eyes are open. They’re just not having that whitewashed, skewed history any more,” she says.

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