It reads more like the reaction from schools and the NAACP.
A lot of the parents are talking with their feet.
The new face of home schooling - More and more, African-American families redefine 'homeroom'*** It used to be predominantly Southern whites who taught their kids at home rather than sending them to integrated schools. But today, what's happening in this well-groomed, mostly black subdivision points to a new reality: Thousands of African-American parents are home-schooling their kids in a growing backlash against America's public-education system - schools that many parents deem too dangerous, too judgmental, or just bad fits. And they're confronting Pythagoras and Shakespeare in venues far beyond the living room: De facto districts are springing up from suburban churches to YMCAs.***
Yup. We had the same problem here in Mobile County, Alabama. The board of education relented by letting everyone go through the graduation ceremonies and those who did not qualify to graduate received a "certificate of attendance" so that the parents could take pictures of their "failed student" in the graduation ceremonies. This process is to be allowed for two more years. Sick! It's all about how you look, not what was achieved.