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The school board's proposal calls for a school from junior kindergarten to Grade 8 that would have more black teachers, mentors and a stronger focus on students' heritage.
The school would teach the Ontario curriculum and have more parent involvement.
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Sounds more like a school where they stick all the black
teachers. I find it amusing that they just broadly declare that the school would have more parent involvement. Unless they set it up like a magnet or alternative school, where students have to apply to be allowed to transfer in from their standard school, this will be no different from any public school in the area, with the same parental involvement and dropout rates to be expected.
But if they want to set up a magnet school that requires applications, more power to them. The Houston school district has had a lot of success with their specialized programs in this area: there's an arts high school, and computer high school, a hard science high school, a liberal arts/literature high school... if they have enough students to fill the classes, and aren't refusing students from other races, why not a cultural school?