You really can't make this stuff up!
Given the epic failure of the first "Africentric" ("Afro-Centric" is like racist or something, I guess) school in the Greater Toronto Area, the TDSB has decided, upon introspection that the very best thing to do is TO OPEN ANOTHER ONE.
No, I'm not kidding.
Background:
"A pilot program for the first high school opened this fall at Winston
Churchill Collegiate, with just six students enrolled. As a result of
the low enrolment, students were integrated into the regular school
program but were given an added Africentric component to their studies.
More than a dozen students are planning to attend in September."
A dozen! Big whoop!
There were "tensions" in order to get it off the ground and also because-wait for it....
The uniform was not Afri-Centric enough.
"Tensions between parents led to arguments over whether the curriculum
was Africentric enough. Some parents even complained that students’
uniforms, African-print vests over white shirts and navy slacks, should
be replaced with a traditional West African dashiki."
Do they wear dashikis in the Caribbean?
Because a lot of black Canadians don't actually come from Africa. Just sayin....
Awkward!
(Never let facts get in the way of a good argument or apparel controversy.)
Thando Hyman-Aman was the first principal who had to resign due to allegations of mistreating a student.
Then, Jacqueline Spence, sister of the TDSB’s disgraced former director, was named principal of the elementary school in September.
What a small world, right? What are the chances of that??
The program then lost a "key advocate" in former education director Chris Spence, who resigned amid allegations of plagiarism.
Funny, that.
