Posted on 12/18/2004 8:01:18 AM PST by mountaineer
Our Mission at the Columbus Africentric School is to develop an African-centered holistic education system for students, parents, staff, and community addressing the needs of the total self with the use of Ma'at and the Nguzo Saba as our guide
Ma'at, the dynamic principles of Right, Truth, and Justice was the source of harmony with self, universe, and the Creator. Eqyptian men and women knew that they must practice the Declarations in everyday life if at death they hoped to be divinely judged and successfully enter the Afterlife. The seven principles of Ma'at include:
Truth: Congruous in thought, words, and deeds.
Justice: Always showing balance in everything you do.
Righteousness: Acting in accord with Divine Law.
Reciprocity: What you give, you shall receive.
Balance: The scales must be equal on all sides.
Harmony: Making sure you are in accordance with nature.
Order: To put persons or things into their proper places in relation to each other.
The Nguzo Saba:
The way people live is really determined by the value system to which they are exposed. Maulana Karenga, a Black Nationalist and Founder of the U.S. Organization, is a strong advocate of this belief and, in his efforts to redirect African people to adopt positive goals, he has developed a Black value system called the Nguzo Saba. The Nguzo Saba is based on customs and traditions of African societies and is, as Karenga states, "a weapon, a shield, and a pillow of peace." The Nguzo Saba consists of seven principles, which embrace both spiritual and scientific concepts.
The seven principles of the Nguzo Saba are:
UMOJA (Unity): To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
KUJICHAGULIA (Self-Determination): To define ourselves, name ourselves, and speak for ourselves instead of being defined and spoken for by others.
UJIMA (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and to make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems and to solve them together.
UJAMA (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and to profit from them together.
NIA (Purpose): To make as our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
KUUMBA (Creativity): To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than when we inherited it.
IMANI (Faith): To believe with all our heart in our parents, our teachers, our people and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
Some states have grants for charter schools, including religious ones. If they don't extend this courtesy to other Christian schools, then, yes, it is Not A Good Thing (tm).
They'll get their butts kicked in academics by the Asian-American School.
Around here, black parents have been trying for years to get their kids into suburban schools with winning programs (Pickerington Girls hoops in the '90s for example).
It's a happenin' place, according to the calendar at the website. Jesse Jacka** spoke to the assembled masses on Dec. 4, "winter recess" started today and tomorrow, best of all, is the Third Annual Kwanzaa Karamu (Feast). Calling employees nation builders is interesting, but what I like is that the PTA is called "village council" - reminds me of the TV show "Survivor" somehow.
The girls' and boys' basketball teams seem to be doing well lately, anyway. The scores I saw in yesterday's and today's papers indicated very lopsided victories by the Nubians.
Columbus Public Schools are a joke.
My folks took me out of CPS after 1st grade and put my sister and I in Catholic schools, where I stayed through high school. Thank God I ended up there.
The stupid voters in Columbus continually vote for school levies when the school district continues to sock it to the taxpayers of this city. They passed one in 2002. They passed another one this year. What happens after it passes? It is revealed that there was a $13 million deficit in one of the teacher funds.
I have never voted for a levy for the Columbus Public Schools and I never will!
More balkinization.
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