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This chapter examines the influences of British and US colonialism on Caribbean schooling, and how this in turn shaped immigrant parents’ perceptions of what schooling would be like in London and New York City. For Caribbean parents in London, British schooling was a distinct model of “excellent” schooling, which these parents had experienced in modified form in the postcolonial Caribbean but anticipated their children would encounter the best of in the “mother country.” In New York City, in contrast, Caribbean parents considered schooling ‘back home’ more academically rigorous than the American educational system. They assumed that New York City’s public high schools were of generally low quality, with lax grading and a lack of appropriate discipline. Popular assumptions about the crisis of urban schools based on Hollywood movies broadcast by US cable networks in the Caribbean made parents protective of their children before they even arrived in New York. |
