Morning by Morning: How We Homeschooled Our African American Sons to the Ivy League by Paula Penn-Nabrit

This was disappointing. I suppose I imagined a WTM-type book, but this was short on details and long on her tale of racial woe. I 'get' the idea that the real problem in this country is that if you are a minority, you never know if the waitress' rudeness is because of her or because of you, but I seriously doubt that the stewardess who saw her family sitting in first class and asked, "What are they doing here?" was making a racial statement. Unless they were flying Confederate Air, I suspect such sentiments (which may very well exist) would at least be kept under wraps. In any case, there were a few interesting tidbits about homeschooling in general and about the juxtaposition of homeschooling and racial issues, but for the most part, this felt like a moralizing rant. Not to mention a bit of false advertising: How could that subtitle neglect to mention that one of those sons was kicked out of Princeton? Which brings us to a bigger issue: apparently their effort to have [almost] exclusively African or African-American male tutors backfired. This almost turns the book into a cautionary tale, but you'd never guess that from Penn-Nabrit's tone.