A friend’s revelations about ruining her child’s education found a co-host on ABC’s “The View” playing the victim card for her own kids, resulting from a “very different decision.”
Sunday, Nikole Hannah-Jones of 1619 Project fame shared the results of a decade-long experiment run on her daughter, enrolling the girl in some of the worst government-run schools in New York City under the belief her wealth and influence would be the rising tide to lift all boats.
As the conclusion revealed the girl suffered major setbacks that required private tutoring to correct, Sunny Hostin used her own kids’ enrollment in “a predominantly white private school” to assert that systemic racism is the actual problem in American education.
After co-host Whoopi Goldberg introduced the essay published in Time Magazine, Hostin lauded her friend Hannah-Jones and said, “I think that this is a decision broadly that all parents make when it comes to educating their kids, but … this is a very difficult decision for black parents in particular, because I made a very different decision.”
“I sent my children to private schools, a predominantly white private school. So, while they didn’t suffer academically, they excelled, but it was a well-funded school, a private school, a well-resourced school; they suffered a different type of pain,” she argued.
JOURNALIST SAID SHE SENT DAUGHTER TO ‘SEGREGATED’ SCHOOL AS ‘SACRIFICE’: After ‘The New York Times’ writer Nikole Hannah-Jones said she’s second-guessing her decision to send her daughter to a public school instead of a private one, ‘The View’ co-hosts weigh in. pic.twitter.com/4LotCCJBds
— The View (@TheView) September 21, 2026
The former prosecutor known for alleging racism carried on, “There was psychological trauma; there was racism that they experienced. They were bullied. There was, you know, trauma around their identity. My daughter wears a big afro; kids were trying to stick pencils in her hair. Boys were calling her butter face, meaning ‘she looked good, but her face,’ and she is a beautiful girl.”
While the ladies fawned over the “beautiful” writing of Hannah-Jones, demonized the Trump administration’s Department of Education, questioned voucher programs and how funding is allotted for government-run schools, at no point did they address the realities presented in the piece from the revisionist historian.
As the writer recalled, students were running amok in the cafeteria while officials ignored bad behavior and Hannah-Jones’ own daughter believed she was excelling only for the mother to find out teachers weren’t actually grading her assignments.
“… she thought she was correctly solving all her problems because her teacher was not checking her work,” the essay stated. “Najya’s writing assignments were rife with uncorrected punctuation, capitalization and grammar errors.”
Woke liberal mom regrets knowingly enrolling daughter in failing school for the benefit of the cause https://t.co/6aYNmrTuUy via @BIZPACReview
— BPR (@BIZPACReview) September 21, 2026
Worth noting, Hostin, who earlier this year attempted to credential her son out of facing consequences for alleged criminal trespassing by harping on his Harvard education and her own background as a federal prosecutor and a television personality, has often accused others of racism.
Having already claimed that Republicans wouldn’t vote for non-white candidates and that President Donald Trump didn’t care about the U.S.-Canadian border, alleging illegal aliens entering that way weren’t Hispanic — among other statements — in October 2025, the co-host recalled how she brought her son to the police station to demand immunity from what she suspected would be future racially-charged allegations.
“… I have to be in the position where I have gone to my local police department because I know my son is going to be training for the Junior Olympics, running around the neighborhood in an all-white neighborhood,” she expressed. “And I have brought him to the police and said, ‘he belongs to me. This is my son. Do not harass him. Do not stop him.’”
Sunny Hostin suggests she had to protect son from her allegedly racist white neighbors https://t.co/c1iwzucZyF
— BPR (@BIZPACReview) October 23, 2025
Driving toward the coffee klatch’s conclusion that funding for government-run schools should have the same base across the country, Hostin asserted, “So I think the real question here is, nationally, schools in predominantly non-white districts receive $23 billion less in annual funding than their white counterparts. Underfunded schools versus well-funded schools. So public schools are funded from property taxes. So we need to look at the systemic problem that’s happening in this country around public education.”
