Project Creator Nikole Hannah-Jones Sparks Debate After Saying Parents Shouldn’t Decide What’s Being Taught In Schools

Nikole Hannah-Jones, project creator for the New York Times’s 1619 Project, shared she did not “understand this idea that parents should decide what’s being taught” in schools, during an interview on Meet the Press on Sunday.

“I’m not a professional educator. I don’t have a degree in social studies or science. We send our children to school because we want them to be taught by people who have an expertise in the subject area. And that is not my job,” she said.

“But that’s just the fact. This is why we send our children to school and don’t homeschool because these are the professional educators who have the expertise to teach social studies, to teach history, to teach science, to teach literature. And I think we should leave that to the educators.”

Hannah-Jones, who has sparked the integration of the controversial 1619 Project for public-school curricula, also created the “outsized voice” of white parents in education policy, though she didn’t deliver any examples.

One twitter user by the name of @whiteKlpwlw commented on the video saying, “I don’t know this woman (Nikole Hannah-Jones), but she is simply WRONG. Parents ARE in charge of their kids lives – including their schooling. Teachers are important partners in that part of their upbringing (but only that part) from a former public teacher’s view)’

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