Posted on 09/08/2009 5:27:03 PM PDT by stan_sipple
Toronto's first Africentric school is set to open on Tuesday with 85 students.
On Tuesday, when hundreds of thousands of Ontario students head back to school, a lot of attention will be focused on one particular school in Toronto's north end.
It only has 85 students, but hopes are high for the Africentric Alternative School, which will open its doors near Keele Street and Sheppard Avenue West on Sept. 8 for the very first time. The Toronto District School Board voted narrowly to approve the controversial school in January 2008.
It's an attempt by educators to combat the disproportionately high dropout rate among black students in the Toronto school system. "The same reading, the same writing, the same mathematics will be there," she said. "What makes this school look different are the culturally relevant resources that we use."
Those resources include textbooks such as The Kid's Book of Black Canadian History or a story about 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, who is from Kenya.
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I think its been tried before and found to be a bad idea. Of course, that hasn't stopped a Leftist from picking up a bad notion and pushing it.
Our country may also have such a school, in the state just across the lake from Ontario.
http://www.education.com/schoolfinder/us/ohio/columbus/columbus-africentric-secondary-school/
...and so another generation is lost...
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