As I was eating my favourite cereal this morning in the kitchen with my TV in front of me, I saw a really strange news report on Breakfast Television, a Toronto-based morning news show. Guess what that report was about? "Black-focused schools." Basically, a sugar-coated name for modern-day segregation. Some verses from an article in the Toronto Star, to introduce you to the incident:
Toronto trustees will meet privately Monday night to discuss four approaches to improving the academic performance of black youth.
Among the possibilities contained in a report on the issue are a black-focused alternative school in the northwest end of the city or starting black-focused programs in three existing schools.
How ironic is this? Black people fought for the right to go to the same schools as white people... and now a decision is being made to make schools like this? Separating black people from everyone else is not the approach to take. It seems too "pre-Civil Rights-esque."
The report says an Africentric, or black-focused, school would be "open to all students, which uses the sources of knowledge and experiences of peoples of African descent as an integral feature of the teaching and learning environment."
"Africentric"? I'm not sorry: this is Canada! Making a Canadian school based with African education is not the way to go. In Canada, you should be learning from Canadian sources if the Canadian people are funding such a school, which obviously, they are, since Dalton McGuinty (premier of Ontario, Canada) left the decision up to Toronto's school board to make such a "black-focused" school and "black-focused" programs.
My question to you is simple: should the Canadian people pay money from their own pockets to fund "black-focused" schools?
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At least the students will be able to wear hoodies.
....... they are at my school, too. What are you trying to get at, Shaquan?
No, that is ridiculous. Look, I know there are various programs out there that help support minorities in education and the whole argument is that they need special attention because there is a reoccurring trend in their lifestyles and socioeconomic situations, but at least these programs help make them productive, successful individuals among the rest of society; so that they can work with the rest of society. Sometimes, I feel that they think they need to be isolated so that they can get the quality education, but I don't really believe in segregating them in an entirely different environment. Like you said, that is completely backwards thinking.
No!! You know, it is good to mix different races together. If you put more educated with less educated, the less educated might want to leatn more.
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