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Toronto's school board approved the creation of the city's first Afro-centric school in a bid to reduce dropout rates among the city's black teens.
Apart from worries that (a) this kind of seems like segregation and (b) that this will basically give permission to all the other schools to not bother teaching Black history -- I can't help thinking that the kids whose parents are idealistic enough to agitate for an alternate school to send them to are not the kids who would be likely to drop out.
Apart from worries that (a) this kind of seems like segregation and (b) that this will basically give permission to all the other schools to not bother teaching Black history -- I can't help thinking that the kids whose parents are idealistic enough to agitate for an alternate school to send them to are not the kids who would be likely to drop out.
