Afrocentric Schools in TO

lemons22 · Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:03 pm Post subject: Afrocentric Schools in TO

Hey guys,

So recently, the TDSB had a vote to decide whether they should open an Afrocentric schools that focuses its curriculum more on African history, culture etc. The vote was 11-9 in favour, and there's been a lot of controversy in this issue...

I just wanted to know what you guys thought about this? We were discussing this in civics today and I thought it was a pretty interesting topic.
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treecow_ · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:41 pm Post subject:

We talked a bit about this in Socials today...
my teacher said that this would be like a private school only for black people (hope i'm not offending anyone. :/) to attend because their community said that "too many black teens are killing each other and dropping out of school".
personally, I feel that it's unneccessary to start an Afrocentric school. It's not fair that they stereotype African-Americans because not all of them are that way. In fact, many of the people starting violence and dropping out of school are probably of all different races. If they start this school, do they really think that it's going to change the African-American teens' minds on what and what not to do? It's not like a single school will stop violence or anything. But that's just my opinion.
I would love to hear some other peoples' opinions as well.
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greenism · Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:04 pm Post subject:

To me it seems like discrimination twisted around in the form of a "lighter" term. Like ^ said, its not fair to target a single race and call it "violent" when other ethnicities are just as capable of doing the same kind of thing.
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seasunsky · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 2:47 pm Post subject:

I don't like the idea of it, either.
Do we have anyone on the boards of that kind of ancestry? It'd be interesting to hear their opinions.
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Meg-san · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:03 am Post subject:

All they're doing is re-segregating a community. If they really want the discrimination to end, they need to incorporate black history into the REGULAR school curriculum so that all students, regardless of race, learn about it and are more informed. They also need to set up more support for black students in schools (like at my high school they had services for first nations students-like extra guidance and support). Separating black students is only going to make the issues deeper because people aren't exposed to other cultures-and how are they supposed to learn to accept people that way?
The whole thing is like taking a step back.....

pink · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:41 am Post subject:

i dont like the idea either. i think its segregated black and white students from each other. and what if other cultures start saying why arent there asian/middle east etc.. schools either?
i know that my school is going to have a black peoples history course in 09/10 as a social science course.
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t3hmimo · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 5:30 am Post subject:

*eye roll* yes it's a great idea to separate the ethnicities just when the going gets tough. yeah it's so easy to give up on getting along and finding solutions because these ethnic diversity schools will lead to a more racial tolerant future.

btw that was sarcasm. xDDD it's harder to do online. rolol.

but honestly, how is that going to solve anything? we're just driving them apart more! the future is supposed to be one free of racism. that is a common goal (or should be) for mankind! especially when canada is known as a multicultural nation...!
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XaioXaio · Newbie Joined: 21 Mar 2008 Posts: 13 Smiles: 0 31

Sounds like a step backwards, imo.

lemons22 · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 7:59 pm Post subject:

has anyone heard anything else on this in the news recently?
i haven't really been watching the news lately...
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treecow_ · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:56 pm Post subject:

I just searched about it and here's what I came up with (I bolded the key points):