Posted on 11/07/2005 8:41:20 AM PST by ktw
Chicago plans high school for black males
CHICAGO, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- The Chicago school district plans to open an all-boys high school primarily for black teenagers.
The Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men must be approved by the Board of Education this month, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Mayor Richard Daley plans to open 100 schools in the city in the next five years. Plans for the next two years include a virtual elementary school, a high school operated by the University of Chicago and a high school stressing business entrepreneurship.
Urban Prep would be located inside Englewood High School. Backers say it is aimed at a group that has the lowest graduation rate of any in the city.
"We're going to take our students where they are and help them gain admission to college and succeed once they are there," said Tim King, the founder of Urban Prep. "Clearly there is a high need for figuring out how to serve these kids academically."
You mean like in "south" Boston?
I agree. I think it's a wonderful idea. Boys have been forced into the matriarchal learnng system of the public schools for too long.
I hope this little experiment is wildly succsessful, because co-ed schools have damaged several generations of men.
From what I heard, Fisher DeBerry is ready to make the first recruiting visit.
The vocational classes should be interesting.
"We're going to take our students where they are and help them gain admission to college and succeed once they are there," said Tim King, the founder of Urban Prep. "Clearly there is a high need for figuring out how to serve these kids academically."
Perhaps a good start would be for their peers to quit telling them they're "acting white" for trying to succeed??
This brings up several questions..will chains be allowed?? throwback jerseys?? crooked ballcaps?? will the cirriculum be taught using northern ebonics (what be dat?), or southern ebonics (what be dat, y'all)..
Unless and until they dress the part and refuse to be labeled "white", no amount of social coddling using their own schools will help..IMHO
And the irony is that they fought to desegregate the schools but when that failed, they fought to resegregate the schools.
It's a no win game.
The Chicago school district plans to open an all-boys high school primarily for black teenagers.
= Good.
The Chicago school district plans to open an all-boys high school primarily for black hispanic teenagers.
= Good.
The Chicago school district plans to open an all-boys high school primarily for black white teenagers.
= OMG we've got to burn it to the ground.
It's only racist if you're white. (It's also sexist if you're white, too.)
Maybe, but blantantly a violation of "seperate is not equal."
I don't doubt the few white males in the same Chicago school districts face the same hurdles as the majority blacks.
Ebonics R U.
Segregated schools?
Which Islam sect will be running them?
"Urban Prep would be located inside Englewood High School. Backers say it is aimed at a group that has the lowest graduation rate of any in the city."
This is the problem I have with these kinds of programs. It should be aimed at ALL failing students, not just black. But, in liberal identity politics, failing blacks is a more important issue than failing whites or latinos.
I recommend the school be named "Rosa Parks High". I am being serious. Would it be such a bad thing for young men to have a woman as an example to look up to and respect?
Will they be teaching Advanced Ebonics.??
Talk about being amazingly hypocritical as well as just plain idiotic. This idea would do several things but here are a few of the real problems.
1. Less Black teenagers will be in the other schools maybe even causing some to be all white which the left will then conveniently call racist for being all white.
2. This is a disgusting avoidance of the problem hence not a solution at all. If teaching is what they need then take the hand cuffs off of teachers and administrators, re-introduce paddeling and other folms of discipline and make good students out of them which they all can be.
This is outright discrimination against all other students, including female. It's also unconstitutional. Didn't civil rights teach anyone about equality?
ROTFLMAO!!!!!
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