Skipping American adolescence

International Herald Tribune ^ | Lynette Clemetson

[fire_eye]

Now, this just says *everything*.

These Africans come over here and the "Culture" in our American schools - particularly that of the so-called "African-American" kids - is so degenerate that they have to send their kids back to Africa to go to school. Not only that, but the education there is better!!!!

Way to go, Jesse... Way to go, NAACP... Way to go, NEA... Way to go... oh, never mind. the list would have to include every leftist that ever waved a red flag or smoked a reefer, and I haven't got time... But yeah, you left is really making great strides in improving the educational system, and the lot of black people in America, yes... You're doing a *great* job... Keep up the good work...

[fire_eye]

you left is really making great strides

Oh, excuse me... I meant to say, "You leftists is really making great strides..." A thousand pardons...

[Malesherbes]

I suppose this ia an international equivalent of "home schooling." Our government school system is such a disaster that even third-world countries offer better alternatives. Most seriously, if we can't do something about the schools in this country, we are doomed.

[katz]

I wouldn't send an American child to a public (government) school in America. It sounds like the parents are on track.

[Incorrigible]

It's not just Africans (though I have a good friend from Ghana who is very well educated).

After teaching at American high schools, my Ireland born wife often insists that our 6 year old daughter should go to the same boarding school in Ireland she went to.

[Rubber Duck]

. . . at roughly $750 per child for room and board for a three-term school year, it is well within reach of families in the United States.

Throw in $1800 or so for a round trip plane ticket and methinks there is an alternative for pumping more and more federal money into failing inner city schools-- send the kids to Ghana to learn some discipline and real skills and fire the unionized flunkies slopping at the public trough for a chance to distribute the spoils. Hey, if we can outsource IT jobs to India, why not teaching jobs to Ghana?

[cyborg]

Wow this is one of the most spot on threads I've seen on FR.

[July 4th]

Interesting. People are sending their children to boarding schools in Africa to get an "American" education along with some moral values. People who send their kids to inner-city schools in America are giving their children the same quality of education as decrepit African tribes but with no moral values. Lovely.

[Dialup Llama]

> "We are African-American - literally," Najima said.

Technically, we are ALL African-American, literally.

[cyborg]

Many former British colonies like Ghana did not totally jettison English culture after independence. The English school model is what many American public schools should seek to emulate. My best friend is from Ghana. She already has a private school in a very wealthy part of Long Island picked out. She's already been to the school and the headmaster met the son already (he's only 1.5 years old). She's NEVER had a problem with racial conflicts ever. He's the only black African boy in a Jewish mommy and me class, and no problems.

[cyborg]

LOL... my best friend hates that expression.

[cyborg]

For many families, the relative affordability of boarding schools abroad is also a plus. One of the better private schools in Ghana, Akosombo International School is far too expensive for the average Ghanaian. But at roughly $750 per child for room and board for a three-term school year, it is well within reach of families in the United States

** It would not work in the US. I tell a lot of people I'm American born but not American raised. I lived in a very 'european, eurocentric' household where England was the mothercountry and the best opera singers were Italian. My mother taught me from English school books. My mother is West Indian and my father is Italian, and as such I spent a lifetime steeped in the culture and lifestyle. I went to a Catholic school but it wasn't that great. In this environment of racist special interests, anti-prop 54 people,etc. these schools wouldn't fly. They're just copies of English boarding schools, one of the good things that came out of English empire. People would scream they won't learn about Kwanzaa, their black culture,etc. It would be too eurocentric (as if that's such a bad thing),etc.

[Captainpaintball]

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[cyborg]

BC ping!

I think you will be interested in this. I think the public school system is done for. It's not the answer. I see this sort of school being duplicated in homeschooling and church schools. What do you think? The closest situation I ever saw of this article in the black American community was when parents would ship their kids en masse down South to put some discipline in their behinds. If a girl got pregnant she was sent down South. If a boy started 'acting up' he was sent down to grandpa in 'pick your southron state'.

[cyborg]

Now that I think about it, this is less about race and culture and more about the liberal disease terminally infecting public schools and the destruction of traditional family. Maybe it's me, but I do not notice people talking about sending their kids down South anymore. One reason is that many of these conservative grandmas and grandpas are passed on.

I hate liberals.

[the Real fifi]

I served on the Board of an International School which had many African children. Their parents were strict disciplinarians who wanted the tough academic program and expected their children to succeed. And they did. You cannot imagine their revulsion when in the senior year they realized that colleges and scholarship programs were giving their children preferential treatment--like MIT's special summer program before the start of the University schedule. They did not believe their kids needed any special help to succeed and did not want them singled out for it.

[fire_eye]

Now that I think about it, this is less about race and culture and more about the liberal disease terminally infecting public schools and the destruction of traditional family.

Oh, you got *that* right. Horowitz and Collier, among others, argue that black America was well on its way to assimilation and an end to racism, until the Left got ahold of it with its agenda of class warfare, multiculturalism, and group identity.

[fire_eye]

I hate liberals.

What? Why???

They're just "misguided" and "mistaken"... You should be "saddened", and "troubled", and "disturbed", and "disheartened", and "discouraged", not "Full of **HATE**"...

i.e.... yeah... Get a rope... Get A LOT of rope...

[cyborg]

Racial preferences were a complete surprise to me when I applied to school. I've known both sides of the racial preferences coin. I've found that some want to be treated equally and be treated separately at the same time. As a rule I do not indicate my race EVER unless I want to be a smartass, and put human. They don't have enough boxes for me anyway. Besides this is more about culture, and just color doesn't matter. That's why i hope Prop.54 gets passed nationwide.

[cyborg]

Dinesh D'Souza's book End to Racism is really good too. They are all right about the EVIL LEFT, the original axis of weasels.