RE: "Black Focused School" Gets Green Light in Toronto

Join Our Community

Collarchat.com

Home Login Search

RE: "Black Focused School" Gets Green Light in Toronto

View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest

All Forums >> [Casual Banter] >> Off the Grid >> RE: "Black Focused School" Gets Green Light in Toronto

Page: << < prev 1 [2]

Message

<< Older Topic Newer Topic >>

RE: "Black Focused School" Gets Green Light i... - 2/10/2008 11:59:10 AM

DesFIP

Posts: 25191
Joined: 11/25/2007
From: Apple County NY
Status: offline

What's necessary is whether or not they get the needed funding for these kids. Group therapy to address issues growing up fatherless is essential. So is tutoring to help get them up to speed. Handing out dashikis to the teachers just won't cut it.

_____________________________

Slave to laundry

Cynical and proud of it!

(in reply to bookgal)

Profile

Post #: 21

RE: "Black Focused School" Gets Green Light i... - 2/10/2008 12:32:06 PM

heartcream

Posts: 3044
Joined: 5/9/2007
From: Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop
Status: offline

quote:

ORIGINAL: DesFIP

What's necessary is whether or not they get the needed funding for these kids. Group therapy to address issues growing up fatherless is essential. So is tutoring to help get them up to speed. Handing out dashikis to the teachers just won't cut it.

I have the sense the people lobbying for these changes are fully aware of what the issues and problems are that they are facing. Funding of course will be a major obstacle to overcome.

(in reply to DesFIP)

Profile

Post #: 22

RE: "Black Focused School" Gets Green Light i... - 2/10/2008 2:13:06 PM

popeye1250

Posts: 18104
Joined: 1/27/2006
From: New Hampshire
Status: offline

quote:

ORIGINAL: DesFIP

What's necessary is whether or not they get the needed funding for these kids. Group therapy to address issues growing up fatherless is essential. So is tutoring to help get them up to speed. Handing out dashikis to the teachers just won't cut it.

Growing up fatherless? Me and half of my friends grew up fatherless, what's the big deal with that?
We all went on to become successful and a few wealthy.
You want to teach these kids not coddle them.

_____________________________

"But Your Honor, this is not a Jury of my Peers, these people are all decent, honest, law-abiding citizens!"

(in reply to DesFIP)

Profile

Post #: 23

RE: "Black Focused School" Gets Green Light i... - 2/10/2008 2:53:03 PM

BlueHnS

Posts: 166
Joined: 9/5/2005
Status: offline

quote:

ORIGINAL: DesFIP

What's necessary is whether or not they get the needed funding for these kids. Group therapy to address issues growing up fatherless is essential. So is tutoring to help get them up to speed. Handing out dashikis to the teachers just won't cut it.

Oh, please tell me I read this wrong! Are you implying that being born black means you will grow up fatherless? Or simply that being a highschool drop out means you are fatherless? No wait ... they can't keep up with the rest of the class because they are black?
WTF?!?!?!?!

_____________________________

Questions are dangerous, for they have answers. ~ Kushiel's Dart
I think I'm going to get off. ~ The Poet

(in reply to DesFIP)

Profile

Post #: 24

RE: "Black Focused School" Gets Green Light i... - 2/10/2008 3:07:41 PM

Griswold

Posts: 2739
Joined: 2/12/2007
Status: offline

quote:

ORIGINAL: heartcream

A little more research on the topic, and lookee, lookee, it is already going on in Chicago, and is successful. No surprise to me really. Black folks are often the fore-runners on things educational, forward moving, like language, music, and style. This seems to me, to be more of the right place with black folks at the helm of the ship of what kids really need within the classroom, for example.

http://www.thestar.com/News/Ideas/article/274911

Uhhhmmm....just a thought....anyone checked out the high school and college graduation rates for African Americans lately (or in the last 20 years even)?

(Let the FLAMES begin!!!!!!)

(in reply to heartcream)

Profile

Post #: 25

RE: "Black Focused School" Gets Green Light i... - 2/10/2008 3:09:52 PM

seeksfemslave

Posts: 4011
Joined: 6/16/2006
Status: offline

quote:

BlueHnS
No wait ... they can't keep up with the rest of the class because they are black?

If this isnt the problem what are the schools for ?
Remember those who post on CM do not have to be PC and spend other peoples money to prove their credentials.
Its permissable to call a spade a spade.

(in reply to BlueHnS)

Profile

Post #: 26

RE: "Black Focused School" Gets Green Light i... - 2/10/2008 6:04:47 PM

BlueHnS

Posts: 166
Joined: 9/5/2005
Status: offline

I have no issue with a spade being called a spade. If Johnny has problem in class then Johnny has a problem. It needs to be addressed. We can sit back and blame alot of factors, but saying he has these issues because he is black is as logical and vaild as saying he has these issues because he wears a special kind of sneakers.
Not all drop outs are any one thing or another. Anyone looked at the top of the class dropout rate? It isn't even recognized as an issue, yet ...but it is happening more and more often.
What does therapy have to do with information retention? For that matter what does pigmentation level?

_____________________________

Questions are dangerous, for they have answers. ~ Kushiel's Dart
I think I'm going to get off. ~ The Poet

(in reply to seeksfemslave)

Profile

Post #: 27