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Posted on 08/22/2011 2:58:07 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
On the first day of school, third-graders in Angela Robinson's class sat cross-legged on the floor and recited the African creed taped to the chalkboard.
They would accept their duties and responsibilities, respect themselves and others, they stated.
"I will study hard," they continued. "I will learn because I will study hard. I love myself. And loving myself, I will be myself, and know myself."
Pamoja Preparatory Academy @ Cole opened Monday as an African-centered school - a place where reading, math, and science are taught alongside African values, customs and culture. Among those values are self-control, respect toward elders and giving back to community.
The school is the first with an African focus in the St. Louis public school system, a district where about 80 percent of the students are black. It's also one of more than a dozen public schools in the city - traditional and charter - that are focused on a particular philosophy or emphasis.
Advocates of specialized schools in urban areas argue that they are an effective way of keeping school-age children in the central city. Magnet schools and often charter schools offer a specialized focus - such as performing arts, foreign language or classical education - to engage children who otherwise may lose interest at more traditional schools.
But others contend that the African-centered approach is too narrowly focused on one racial group.
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
hunh. cool but isn’t this America?
Will they teach the kids about famous Africans, such as, Emperor Bokassa I, or Idi Amin Dada (Two A’s, Two D’s and one gun).
>Pamoja Preparatory Academy @ Cole opened Monday as an African-centered school <
How about an American-centered school?
“New city school blends learning with African cultural flavor”
Why?
If this is African culture, why are they forever killing each other and living in such horrid conditions. Seems like if this really was African culture, Africa would be a really educated and prosperous place instead of the hell hole it is.
Are grub worms on the menu?
... and where ever I go, there I am.
Why bother with doing this? Pack up and head for the home country. Everybody would benefit. Your students wouldn’t have to pretend to be African they would be African. So go, get back to your roots. See ya. Well actually no I won’t.
I’ll see your dashiki and Kwanzaa and raise you one George Washington and a father in your life with a job.
I can see no good coming out of this.
If Africa is so great, send them, back there.
Throw in the neo-Marxist with them.
I am sure Zimmbabwe is nice this time of year.
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Things I would like to see:
“Ok, children, what have we learned today?”
“Gee, teacher, Africa kinda sucks.”
So sad! Another generation of kids with no saleable skills and no future but welfare, crime and poverty.
What about the American culture, are these children Americans, or are they foreigners? The US Constitution hanging around there anywhere? You know teaching them to have respect for the laws of THIS land?
“and recited the African creed...”
I will sell the tribes into slavery. I will be a bloody warrior. I will make graven images of my phallus. I will take my women by force....
Tastes like chicken.
Slimy, yet satisfying.
Funny. I just picked up my buddy whose office is on the same floor as the the welfare office in L.A., and a couple of black guys took turns pissing in the same urinal without flushing.
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