Toronto's First Africentric School to open...

An 'Africentric' school is to open in Toronto; designed to fill a perceived gap in educational provision. It's backers hope it will combat high drop-out rates among Black children, with resources much more aligned to what they would be interested in or relevant to their lives.

I'm not sure I get the point of this... It appears that the parents interviewed think the school will fill the historical void that they should be providing in the home themselves. I send my son to school to learn the fundamental skills to provide and educational foundation he'll need in a 21st Century Western society; the rest I provide at home. Abdicating parental responsibility for a fundamental area like this is, to be frank, lazy...

Schools should teach the facts behind the enslavement of my ancestors and the murderous middle passage; however this should not denude the responsibility that parents have themselves to teach the next generation of what has happened, the lessons learned, and how this should not affect their aspirations for the future.

Unless this also addresses factors such as stopping high instances of teen pregnancy, removing the culture of low aspiration and moving our youth away from stereotyped careers of sport, music and other entertainment, then it it won't address those factors that we, as a group, can address ourselves...