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The movement to implement an appropriate African Centered Curriculum in predominately African in America inner city schools is critical to the on-going struggle for the liberation of African people in this country. We must continue to demand that the truth be taught as the new school year begins. If this movement is to be successful, just like the impact of the youth in the 1960s, it will be the youth of this era that must rise up and take leadership in changing America's public school systems to teach the truth.
This movement has now become popularly known as the African Centered Education Movement. Simply stated, it focuses on teaching the truth concerning the contributions of African people to the development of civilization in all subjects. During this new school year, we must heighten the dialogue concerning the importance of this movement.
Throughout the country, Africans in America have become more sensitive to challenging the racist and white supremacist basis of the African public school curriculum.
Through the National Black United Front (NBUF) and its world African Centered Education Plan, more Africans in America are beginning to see the need for massive curriculum change in the public schools of this country and the youth must take leadership in this project.
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There is not a day that goes by that someone does not call my office seeking information and help on how to start the process of changing the curriculum in their school. Parents are becoming more and more dissatisfied with what their children are being taught. They are also beginning to realize how much isn't taught.
It is clear that the public school system is the place where African in America children receive a significant portion of their view of the world and the history of the world. And, it also is a place where large numbers of African in America youth are miseducated under the system of white supremacy through the ideas and interpretation of history that is presented to them.
Let's turn to Carter G. Woodson's great book, The Miseducation of the Negro to get some further insights into this problem. Woodson observes "the so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker people."
For example, Woodson says, "The philosophy and ethics resulting from our educational system have justified slavery, peonage, segregation and lynching. The oppressor has the right to exploit, to handicap, and to kill the oppressed."
Continuing on Woodson explains that, "No systematic effort toward change had been possible for, taught the same economics, history, philosophy, literature and religion which have established the present code of morals, the Negro's mind has been brought under control of his oppressor."
Concluding on this point Woodson states, "The problem of holding the Negro down, therefore, is easily solved. When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions."
Therefore, it is inspiring to see so many of our people waking up all over America and seeking the truth concerning the real contributions of African people to the world. Through study groups, conferences, Black talk radio, information network exchanges, African Americans are coming into a new African consciousness that seeks to reclaim the African mind and spirit.
Through the Portland Model Baseline Essays, the work of the Kemetic Institute, the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations (ASCAC), and other writings and curriculum materials, Africans are becoming much more aware of the following points that must be incorporated into the curriculum:
1. Africa is the home of early man.
2. Africa is the cradle of modern man.
3. Africa is the cradle of civilization.
4. Africa once held a position as world teacher including the teacher for the western world.
5. There was and there still is a continental wide unity in Africa and in the African communities around the world.
6. The first time Africans left the continent was not on slave ships.
7. Africa and African people all over the world have been under siege for nearly 2000 years and only recently by European slavery and colonization.
8. There is an African Diaspora all over the world today.
9. African people have resisted domination on the continent and all over the world.
10. Even under slavery, colonization, segregation, apartheid, African people have made monumental contributions to arts, science and politics.
These ten points, and others, have become the basis upon which we can judge the white supremacy public school curriculums content in textbooks and other learning materials.
In other words, these points have become the basis of determining whether the truth is being taught in the public schools of this country.
The Truth will set us free!
Article found online at: Link… (BlackCommentator.com)
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Anna Mehler Paperny
Less than two months into the school year, parents are lining up to enroll their children in Toronto's first Africentric school.
The black-focused school is at capacity with 128 students - 15 added since the start of the school year. It's an about-face from several months ago, when low enrolment sparked concerns about whether the unique school could open at all.
But now it faces the opposite problem: How to find room for the students clamouring to get in? The school board is considering adding portables, but only as a last resort.
The influx of requests from parents to send their kids to the school affirms the community's desire for culturally specific education, said Toronto District School Board trustee James Pasternak.
"Once the school is established and people have a comfort zone that it's up and running and operational and they can physically see it, parents are more likely to take a sober second look at it," he said.
"Back in the spring of this year there [were] lingering doubts about the viability of the school, about its long-term potential, whether it's the right move... Right now, they're seeing the positive comments from parents, they're starting to meet the very dedicated faculty."
Mr. Pasternak added that parents have been heavily involved so far, and the nature of the school helps foster that participation.
"The connection between a household and a school is stronger when there's a cultural connection, and that's what were seeing here."
Mr. Pasternak said he doesn't think it's likely other ethnic groups in the Toronto area will want to mimic the Africentric school's model. The board established the alternative school to help struggling students, particularly Caribbean-Canadian students, about 40 per cent of whom end up dropping out of high school, according to TDSB statistics.
"The experience of the students, families of African extraction is unique and we really had to do something to lower the dropout rate, to engage students," Mr. Pasternak said. "Other cultural communities wanting the same? They really don't fit into the same rationale."
The question now is what to do about the sudden demand. The school is in what was an unused wing of Sheppard Public school. It has students from junior kindergarten to Grade 5, and is supposed to add a Grade 6 class next year.
In theory, capacity can be increased, Mr. Pasternak said, but only so much.
To welcome the 25 pupils on the waiting list and add another grade the school would require two more classrooms and two more teachers, in addition to eight current instructors - two of them added since Labour Day.
He said adding portables to accommodate more kids is a last resort, but added they would be as close to "state of the art" as a temporary classroom can get.
But he said the demand for spaces means the unique school is sustainable and will survive. More than a quarter of the school's students are in kindergarten, which gives the older grades a natural base to draw on.
"These kids will roll into Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3 and so forth."
Article found online at: Link… (TheGlobeAndMail.com)
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