From our friend Jdid of Doan Mind Me Blog, we learn of the fascination of some educators with “Afri-centric Curriculum”.
Jdid seems to have had no problem with the general principle of such a curriculum, until he looked closer…
Excerpt from Afri-Centric at Doan Mind Me Blog…
…Now I’ll be honest my first thoughts when I hear about these special programs for Black students is why is all of this necessary? Its probably definitely a bias on my part since I figure hey I grew up learning more British history than Caribbean history and it didn’t negatively affect me why can’t these black kids here deal with the teaching system and just put their best foot forward and do what they can do.
But then I realize like I said its a bias on my part. I haven’t been through this Canadian school system so I can’t shouldn’t make direct comparisons. Plus from the statistics offered it just seems as if there is something lacking here as too many of our black youth are falling by the wayside. Of course this could be due to attitudes, systems, parents, teachers, society and a host of other factors but hey we need to get these kids back on track and we need to start somewhere. I guess if Afri-centric programs can save some of them then hey I say more power to them and lets get it going full speed.
The part of the article that threw me for a loop though was this section:
“And we’re looking at a data-management unit that would use statistics about police and racial profiling”
A who with a what? Ok is this only disturbing to me? I don’t know about y’all but to me this just sounds like the draft for a bad Chappell show skit. I’m all for the Africentric curriculum but ummm just leave the race stats and police profiling out of math class please. I’m just imagining questions like “Over the past 5 weeks Lil Johnny has been harassed by Po Po 8, 10,5, 3 and 12 times. What is the likelihood that Lil Johnny will be harassed by Po Po more than 6 times this week?”…
Read the entire piece at Doan Mind Me (link here)
