Ten years ago, Nikole Hannah-Jones and her husband made a deliberate choice: instead of sending their daughter to an elite school, they enrolled her in a struggling, predominantly Black public school in Brooklyn. Hannah-Jones believed families with resources and influence had a responsibility to invest in schools too often abandoned by those with options. A decade later, she says the experience came at a painful cost. Her daughter fell behind academically, teachers failed to provide the support she needed, and at 16, she confronted her mother with a devastating question: why had she spent so much time thinking about other children instead of her own? Hannah-Jones has apologized to her daughter, but she still argues that segregation remains at the heart of the problem. Her critics see a different lesson — one about accountability, school performance, and what happens when principle collides with parenthood. Michael Smerconish laments that not all families can do what Hannah-Jones ultimately did – move their child to a better school and let the money follow the child.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
