Toronto Considers Opening Black-Only Schools !!!!!!

[Daanyeer]

Source: hoovaloo.com
December 1, 2007

You’d think a multicultural city like Toronto would be the last place to want to implement a “black-focused” school, but here we are, the Toronto District School Board really wants to do it. From CityTV News:

The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) is looking at the controversial idea of black-focused schools again, an idea that’s been rejected in the past, as some of its members complain that the education system is failing students of colour.



At least one may be opened as early as next fall if the TDSB goes ahead with the proposal. A report is being prepared on how such a facility would work in the context of the public board, and two community meetings are planned over the next week to discuss the pros and cons. When asked, GTA residents seemed mainly opposed to the idea. […]

Such schools already exist in U.S. cities including Detroit and Washington, and though there aren’t any black-focused schools in Ontario yet there is a grade school and high school for First Nations students and an alternative high school for gay and lesbian students.

So does Toronto aspire to put black kids in their own school like they do in the Detroit and DC ghettoes? Anyway, you can read a more sensible take on this from the Globe and Mail.

[razzberry]

Interesting. I know a lot of the “black only” Charter schools in The US do seem to be very successful .