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 ...
Is that real or photoshopped to some degree?
It’s a hell of a lot better than the crap that liberals have been feeding them for decades. But it still creates a group of people who think that they are not part of the American culture and as such, they will feel no guilt when the London style looting and burning start.
What are “African values, customs and culture”? These vary greatly in the territory that lies between Marrakesh and Maputo.
After all, a FBI informant invented out of whole cloth their most famous holiday “Kwanzaa”.
Ask her the capital of Missouri.
Wonder how successful a request for funds to teach whte children their Nodic European heritage would be hmmm? They’ll call you Nutsy and that’s if they have a cold.
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It looks real.
I don’t know. . . it sounds a lot like warmed over “self-esteem” crap that has brought us today’s underachieving, entitled, dumbed down, narcissistic under 45 crowd. With a large helping of the failed “diversity/multi cultural” dung thrown in for “good measure.”
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the...where is this again?
they tried this crap in DC and the last I heard, the principle was arrested for attacking a reporter asking questions about the curriculum.
They really don’t seem to get it.
Although there are Americans with ancestors from Africa and a hundred other places, the customs, laws, and culture of America come from Britain and Britain was a successor civilization to the classical Roman and Greeks.
That’s why those cultures and histories ought to be studied by all Americans- so Americans can understand themselves. It isn’t because of “racism” that the works of “old white guys” is traditionally held as so important.
Well, there you are: African* values.
*To be fair, third-world values everywhere. And Chicago, of course.
Flavor??? People Flavor,they taste like Chicken??
Mark
Besides, I only though white, elementary school teachers celebrated Kwanzaa.
LOL! I remember that! Where was that from again???
I'm of Scandinavian ancestry and I certainly don't want my children attending a school where learning is "blended with a Scandinavian cultural flavor." This is AMERICA.
I'll confess that I do like the flavor of a Danish with my morning coffee though.
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