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Originally Posted by cocofife
Living in butt-fuck-Caledon must be skewing your view of the rest of Canada and fucking with your head. Let me spell it out for you: In schools in Ontario, history is centred around European history -- the British and French people who came over on the boats and landed on the rocks and colonized this great big land we call C-A-N-A-D-A.
There are, however, minority groups who call Canada home too (SURPRISE!!!). They also have a history that is a little bitty bit different than the Europeans, but the silly schools (like the one your daughter goes to in a different school board, idiot) don't think that's important because, hey there are only two 'token' black kids, so who cares about them, right? They'll probably just drop out anyway....
Wait a minute... maybe kids dropping out of school is a BAD thing.... and, and, maybe, just maybe, it would be helpful and empowering for the black kids to learn about their own ancestors and the "black (African-Canadian, et. al.) experience" which does NOT consist of 'gangstas' and 'bone-thugs' and 'bitches' and 'hoes' etc etc.
So, now, where were we? Oh, right! We're trying to empower and educate black youths about African-Canadian History and encourage them to complete their schooling! The TDSB has many Alternative schools which centre on smaller, focused groups within the mainstream student population (which is a pretty big one). An Africentric Alternative school would simply be keeping with the TDSB policies.
To answer your silly question about adjusting the curriculum: It will take a lot more time and a lot more TAXPAYER MONEY to rehaul the curriculum across the board! It is simpler and more efficient to set up one or two spaces and give parents and students the option to attend the alternative model or the mainstream model, than it is to change the entire curriculum. That's one of the reasons why the TDSB has a policy on alternative schools. Now, that's not to say that the curriculum will never change, but it's easier to test and develop new curriculum on a small scale.
Why don't you try reading something OTHER than GFY and get yourself a little clue there, boy?
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So they are going to teach about the African explorers who came over and settled the country? oh wait, that never happened.
WTF is afrocentric curriculum?? You can just make up canadian historical fact.
How you can support this is beyond me, it's LAUGHABLE that any sensible human being could think that this school would in any way improve drop-out rates or reduce crime. Why don't they just add courses to the existing schools if it will make a difference? Compare the drop-out rate of black children at schools who offer the courses vs. schools that don't. Scientifically prove that it makes a difference and then make your case.
There are alot of schools in the GTA where the majority of students are black/minorities anyway - why open a special school?? the ONLY thing it could possibly do is create segregation. No white kids would go to the school, no asian kids would go to the school. Saying that it's "open to students of any race" is such a fucking joke
Call this school what it is: It is a place where a small group of anti-white activists can send their children to get them away from the big bad white man - since they think it's the public schools' fault their kids are drop-outs.
Gimme a fucking break - In this city there are people of all religions / cultures / etc /etc facing the same challenges as everyone else. How this became a 'black' issue is beyind me. We are not inner-city Chicago, we are NOT an American city. Being black in Toronto doesn't mean shit, EVERYONE in Toronto is a minority in some way and no one deserves special treatment.
And the schools boards go CRYING to the goverment for more money every year.. yet all they do is WASTE my tax dollars on stupid shit like this. The province won't provide extra funding - so that means $800,000 of TAXPAYER MONEY would pay for this school -
FYI the TDSB is facing a 41 million dollar budget deficit. How does a school board who had a 41 million dollar funding gap even consider spending almost a million extra dollars on this bullshit?? Explain THAT. Worry about managing taxpayer money first, then open your little special interest, racist schools.