February 3rd, 2008

Toronto Set To Open Black-Focused Schools To Help The Drop Out Rate



After a heated but civil debate, Canada’s largest school board voted 11-9 last night to open an alternative Africentric school to help fight a 40 per cent dropout rate among Toronto’s black teens.

“Don’t propose it – Martin Luther King thought we could sit at the front of the bus together,” pleaded Loreen Small, whose son was shot dead last spring at his school in northwest Toronto.

Yet human rights activist Vicky McPhee said an Africentric school “is a right,” and the only type of school to which she wants to send her 6-year-old child. She called for these schools in each of the city’s 22 wards.

Full Story

Will this really help black students or provide them with inferior education? I don’t see how this will improve anything.

Props to Ashley

Related Posts:

  1. Segregation In Schools On The Rise
  2. A ‘Ho’ By Any Other Color: The History and Economics of Black Female Sexual Exploitation
  3. Chasing The Cool- Black Men, CNN’s Black in America, and Hip-Hop Culture
  4. So RealTalkNY Has Been Chosen To Comment On CNN’s,” Black In America”
  5. A Black Teenager Shoves A Hall Monitor & Gets 7 Years In Prison

This entry was posted on Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 at 12:50 am and is filed under News.



15 Responses to “Toronto Set To Open Black-Focused Schools To Help The Drop Out Rate”