This proposal brdges a great divide.
"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. "
An Africentric School, in Ontario?
The question that should be asked "Is this segregation"?
According to the article, they are trying to stem the tide of the high dropout rates amoung "black" children, and I quote:
"The Toronto District School Board says 40 per cent of Caribbean-born students drop out, and 32 per cent from east Africa."
Lets call a spade a spade (pardon the pun) ..... is there a better way to curtail the droput rate?
If the statistics were reflective of "white children", would they have created a distinct and separate school for them?
Is this promoting integration and the often touted "mosaic" of the Canadian Society?
What are the parents role in this "drop out" ?
Are they expecting me (as a taxpayer) to foot the bill for their inadequate parenting?
This is a slippery slope with no fine tuned results. It will come back to bite those who insist on establishing such a distinct, separate and segregated class of students, at my expense.
This is insane.
1 comment:
"Are they expecting me (as a taxpayer) to foot the bill for their inadequate parenting?"
I don't like footing the bill for bad parenting, but the reality is that you will foot an even higher bill for the theft insurance, court-appointed public lawyer, jail staff, probation staff, and such if you don't.
Acknowledging that it sucks to pay for someone else's problem, we need to get past that and realize this and almost ANY route is way cheaper than the current alternative.
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