POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
What an absurd, regressive step this is.
There is no sound case for this, none at all.
Are we to divide up into separate schools for the scores of ethnic identities that now constitute our society?
No, no one is asking for that.
So how are children of African descent so different?
If you cannot succeed in our schools as others do, how can you expect to succeed in our society at large?
One is tempted to suggest that any grade improvement seen here will be the self-fulfilling efforts of teachers and administrators needing to prove they were right.
Extra Afro-centric grade inflation on top of the already inflated grades of our public schools?
Are we then to have Afro-centric high schools, colleges, and universities ready to accept the inflated-grade graduates?
Will they train students for Afro-centric corporations and Afro-centric professional careers?
Or for diplomatic careers in an Afro-centric world?
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"It's amazing to me that none of you seem to grasp the concept that it isnt a BLACKS ONLY school... ANYONE is welcome to enroll."
Oh, please, this tired point has been made a thousand times, and still it is meaningless.
Of course, the school could not be funded otherwise.
But no one else is going to enroll.
Indeed almost no black children have enrolled. It is a group about the size of two or three normal classrooms.
