Toronto District School Board trustees have given final approval to Toronto's first Africentric school, but not without another meeting filled with acrimony and charges of racism.
The issue is one of the most controversial ever put to the board. The school will open in September 2009, and will occupy unused space at Sheppard Public School, near Sheppard Avenue and Keele Street. It will serve students from junior kindergarten to Grade 5. Some As many as 40 per cent of black students don't graduate from Toronto high schools. Board chair John Campbell tried to smooth over some of the disagreements that were being brought up about racism and sexism, but finally said "enough is enough." In the end, the decision was approved by a vote of 13-8. The board did not approve a black-focused high school for 2010, but did vote to study the idea.
The issue is one of the most controversial ever put to the board. The school will open in September 2009, and will occupy unused space at Sheppard Public School, near Sheppard Avenue and Keele Street. It will serve students from junior kindergarten to Grade 5. Some As many as 40 per cent of black students don't graduate from Toronto high schools. Board chair John Campbell tried to smooth over some of the disagreements that were being brought up about racism and sexism, but finally said "enough is enough." In the end, the decision was approved by a vote of 13-8. The board did not approve a black-focused high school for 2010, but did vote to study the idea.
Wasn't racial segregation deemed illegal in Canada? I can understand that urban schools in downtown Toronto aren't working particularly well, but how can this be the solution? I would propose hiring more teachers in the schools that already do exist, to have a lower student/educator ratio, rather than dividing students based on race. To be honest I do not think that this solution will work. Don't spend money on something that is doomed to fail right from the start. I am all for making sure kids get a descent education, but this concept i dont think is what will resolve the problem.
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Leland you bring up a good point why are they trying to create segrigation once again? Aren't we supossed to be learning from our past. All we are doing here is makeing the Blacks and Whites further apart.
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