Why more and more Black-Canadian families are choosing to homeschool their kids
Tucked away on a street corner near Toronto’s Trinity Bellwoods Park is a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it homeschooling haven called Sage and Savant. It’s not actually a home, it’s a small storefront—a beautiful, light-filled space with large glass windows, a cursive sign, and children spilling from the door when it’s time to play outside.the crisis Black students are facing
In Black mom Facebook groups, parents post congratulatory updates about their teenagers graduating high school or getting into the program of their choice for post-secondary school. These posts aren’t just a celebration of a child who’s grown up—it’s an acknowledgement of the many battles that parent may have had to fight on their child’s behalf, because of their race.
“We are Afro-Indigenous, so I thought it would be great for him to experience Indigenous spirituality at school, but the education system was [still] an issue,” she says. “, and profiling of him as a Black boy, and not enough one-on-one support, was unbearable.” Avtar went back to homeschooling the next year.
Even though both the administration and the teachers were willing to engage in conversations about diversity, says Mansaray-Richardson, the school’s overall systemic, structural and pedagogical limitations didn’t allow him to thrive. He suddenly started making himself “small” and closing himself off, squelching his passion for learning in the process.
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