bookgal -> RE: "Black Focused School" Gets Green Light in Toronto (2/9/2008 5:52:34 PM)
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I think it has excellent potential to be a top rated school, most alternative schools are. I like your optimism. I wish they were around when I was in grade school. 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 I think that people underestimate how euro-centric Canadian curriculum really is and how much damage that does to everyone. Most people don't even know that slavery existed here, and when we study the building of the Canadian Railway, a huge unit in grade 9, there's mention of the Chinese labourers, but the focus is on the politics and financeers behind it. The real Canadians I guess. There's so much that's relevant and interesting that gets left out and changes would benefit everyone. People have been trying to change it for years, but I guess okaying an alternative school involves fewer obstacles somehow. I'm looking forward to seeing this school and the kids it turns out succeed.
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