The far-left 1619 Project writer used her daughter as a "sacrifice" to Brooklyn’s failing schools. This is why some people shouldn't be allowed to have children. ⠀ Najya Hannah-Jones is 16. Nikole Hannah-Jones put her only child into New York City public schools starting in 2015 on purpose. She had the money and the connections for better ones. ⠀ “We thought by sending Najya to a mostly low-income and black school, we could help improve it for all the children there.” That was the 2016 Times Magazine pitch. ⠀ PS 307 near DUMBO was 56% black. In 2016 only 19% of its students met state English standards. Nearly 40% were listed as special needs. ⠀ Middle school was Urban Assembly Unison between Clinton Hill and Bed-Stuy. In 2024 about 40% met state standards, against a city middle-school average of 55%. ⠀ Hannah-Jones later found the fourth-grade teacher was not checking math. Najya thought she was acing it. Writing came back with uncorrected punctuation and grammar. ⠀ “I sat there silently for several minutes, conjuring the image of my little girl thinking she was soaring in class when she was failing, and my devastation morphed into hot rage.” ⠀ Najya confronted her in the car. “So you had money to send me to one of the best schools, and you chose not to? Because other kids are disadvantaged, you didn’t want to put me in a great school?” ⠀ “Sometimes I wish instead of always thinking about other kids, you would have thought about me.” She also said, “I never really got the education I wanted.” ⠀ The family bought a $1.5 million Bed-Stuy brownstone in 2018. Hannah-Jones writes that she wanted Najya to see the struggle as “a lineage and a mandate.” ⠀ The new Times Magazine essay is titled “In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?” Her own line is, “I feel that I failed both my values and my child.” ⠀ Najya is now in a harder high school and needed tutoring to catch up. “But she was mine,” Hannah-Jones wrote. “And I had not chosen her.” ⠀ #NewYork# #NYC#