Essay details educational harm to Hannah-Jones's daughter
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The essay describes how Najya, though one of the brightest students in her class, could not pass the state algebra exam due to gaps traced to elementary school, found ungraded math assignments in her folder, and had a teacher who "most likely never performed the school's mandatory reading assessments for Najya or any of her classmates." Hannah-Jones recounts her daughter asking: "Did you know my school was bad like this when you decided to put me here?"
“I felt overcome with regret. Najya deserved better. They all did. But she was mine. This girl, my only child, looked to me to protect her, to give her what she needed to thrive. And I had not chosen her.”
Nikole Hannah-JonesNikole Hannah-Jones Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, 1619 Project creator
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