Conversations w/ Smart People Raheim Shabazz & Lora Smothers (rethink education)

Dr. Scott Speed has his doctorate in education and is the perfect host for this week's dynamic Conversations w/ Smart People. In the 1st hour he speaks with Raheim Shabazz, director of the award winning documentary, Elementary Genocide as they discuss the school to prison pipeline and whether or not African American children are targeted in the public school system. In the 2nd hour, Lora Smothers, director Learn to Grow UNschool visits MD to discuss our current public school systems and the various ways it is failing our children. Listen as Dr. Speed also discusses with her the African American's community distrust of alternative schooling, such as homeschooling when in fact the community suffers greatly in the public school system. MD asking the questions America's afraid to ask. "ALL I ASK IS THAT YOU THINK"