Streamlining the “school-to-jail pipeline”, an Afrocentric school in Toronto receives approval. And not a moment too soon!
2001-2002 statistical data from the [Toronto District School Board] indicates the percentage of students from specific geograpical locations at risk of not graduating:
– 45% of Western African, Central and South American students at risk
– 39% East African
– 24 % of South Asian
– 23% Eastern European
– 16% Eastern Asian
Watch for the next step in this brave new social scheme – redefining academic standards to “normalize” Afro-achievement.
More here, here and here – “where race and failure are the only criteria for entrance”.
And here (from Jan. 26th);
My black special ed students were quite a challenge. I set and upheld high standards and my students all improved markedly, both behaviourally and academically. But, as I said, this took constant vigilance and intervention on my part, with no to negative pull from their usually single mothers. This group is now in another class, with a much less experienced teacher. Their behaviour has deteriorated rapidly. Very sad.
I also taught summer school in an inner city school with many black kids, many of the girls wearing hijab. The insolence, sense of entitlement, and plain bad manners of a good number of these kids was most disturbing, not to mention that, academically, the standard was pretty low. (One “hijabbed” young miss, about 10, refused to stand for “O Canada”: “It’s not my country.” That only happened on the first day as I made it altogether clear that sitting for the national anthem was NOT an option.)
It’s occurred to me that an all-black school—presumably for the most troubled and troublesome kids—would be hell (for the all black teachers, I suppose) to work in UNLESS it set a very different standard from most public schools: uniforms, high behavioural and academic expectations, upheld on a consistent basis. In other words, Tough Love. I don’t, however, see that happening. E.g., I saw a panel discussion on TVO about the Falconer Commission: Board Director, with her pasted on smile, slogan spouting head of the union, two almost inarticulate parents, one white, one black, a yappy, chip on the shoulder, black trustee, and John Snobelen. As no one was willing to actually diagnose the problem, the solutions they suggested were mere bromides. The problem for most of the problem kids? The accepted family structure of many kids by many fathers, with no dad around the home sets these kids up for failure from the start. Their mothers are often very young, uneducated, inarticulate, chip on the shoulder women who are not able to provide the security and role modelling necessary to socialize their kids. Any school for this type of kid would have to be built on a philosophy of high structure and non negotiable authority, consistently and seriously enforced. I believe any “solution” which overlooks this is not going to make much of a difference.
Racist!
There. I saved you the trouble.
Welcome to the world of the lowest common everything. Racist Canada now official.
Lets start a white only school. Now that’s racist
Only in liberal Toronto would this insanity be possible. How do you help underperforming students? Put them all together in the same room? So they can conclude that they are not underperforming, but in fact conforming to the norm?
Instead of wasting money on “afro-centric” skools were their just going to teach them a fuller cirriculum of “Hate Whitey-Blame Whitey” agit-prop,why not organize student trips back to Africa.
Two week camping excursions to such African wonderlands like say,Zimbabwe,Somalia,Kenya,the Congo or the Sudan will probably be enough to convince every Blax student the importance of getting an education.
Or maybe they don’t have to be taken all the way to Africa,perhaps a little closer to home might be appropriate.
Two week “going native” junkets to Trench Town in Jamaica,or a Brazilian “favela” will surely be enough of an eye opener to get the dropout rate amongst Toronto Blax down to ZERO.
So how do they propose to make Math Afro-centric?
Perhaps they will couch word problems in environmental situations…
“If you and your 4 of homies have 9mm Browning High powers holding 10 rounds each and the other Crew has 2 illegal 13 Round Sig saurs, one 30 round Uzi and an MP5 with 2 more 30 round clips. How many more rounds than your gang does the other crew have?”
African? Where is Jamaica?
Leave it to the Far Left to take a regressive thing and label it “progressive”.
Apartheid/segregation and treating people differently, rather than as equals, with equal potential as human beings, is wrong, wrong, wrong.
It’s those who believe in apartheid/segregation and unequal treatment who are the racists, not those of us who have the guts to say something that’s wrong and racist is wrong and racist.
I, as someone who was fully integrated into regular, ordinary classes despite hearing impairment, do not believe in segregation. It’s wrong and prejudicial to separate people on the basis of skin color or whatever, dogmatically, politically-correctly assuming that they have different potential for achievement and so on.
But the Far Left is unenlightened, unsophisticated, prejudiced and divisive, so it’s not surprising that they’re forging backwards in time to unenlighenment, ignorance, prejucice, intolerance…
Oops- misspellings corrected in last paragraph:
(unenlightened… prejudice)
Guess I type fast and make more typos when I’m thumping the Far Left for its terrible faults! At least my mistakes are honest and I admit and correct them, unlike the Far Left, who sticks by what’s wrong and makes it even worse!
I have an idea. Let’s hold the delinquent fathers of these children criminally and socially responsible for the crimes of their non-parented offspring. It is about time that men of certain groups are made to realize that young women are not their personal sperm depositories.
Now, before you start calling me a racist, I have been a single father of 3 daughters for over 12 years. I have sacrificed career, money and opportunity to be near my children. It has nothing to do with race, and everything to do with living up to one’s responsibility.
If you plant the seed, you are responsible for the deed.
Brainless. A step backward. Apartheid. Right here in Canada, in the worst possible place, Toronto.Are they vying to become the most ghettoized place in Canada?
It seems reasonable to offer the same classic education curriculum to all students in one public system. Ethnicity or religion should not be factored in or interfere with that basic education.
It would act as a stepping stone to better understanding and acceptance on all fronts, insuring a better chance of integration into the mainstream and ultimately a civil society.
If it’s understanding, equality, acceptance, this will not work.
Dunderheads!
Speaking of Dunderheads, McGuinty will be in a bit of a bind on this one since he won the election on a one issue platform, Public Schools only, no religious segregation for anyone except Roman Catholics. Where will the funding come from? If it isn’t adequate, the kids will not have the proper programs and will be further marginalized.
Alleviating problems in Society is only the public policy of the left; words to say to the media but for which the left has actually no intent of actioning.
In truth, the left actually works to aggravate the problems, thus justifying even more leftist policies in order to solve them.
This has been said by many on this blog before, and written in many books for many years. I don’t pretend to have any special insight here, but just remind everyone that this is what the left does, what it always does and why we see the same crap from them all the time!
Listen to their words and all will be well.
Don’t mind their actions, who are you to judge them anyways!
I spell it “Realist”
As a former teacher in a remote aboriginal village, the story rings true. The bigger the chip on the shoulder, the faster is the slide to failure.
And when it comes time to prove the system works, the Superintendent just orders the teachers to “arrange” the grades to show the required progress.
To their credit, the ont gov’t announced that they would NOT provide extra funding for any race based school.
Canada Afrocentric school sparks debate
….”Out of the 100 or so families I worked with in Malvern, I would say 80% of the families were non-supportive of their children’s education. When you’d go into a lot of the houses, there was a lot of yelling and arguing. There were lots of latchkey kids.”….
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7217212.stm
…’a lot of yelling and arguing’…outside the home too.
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_19093.aspx
Is it any wonder the dropout rate is so high. What kid can, or even wants to study at home with all that noise going on?
This was discussed on talk radio in Ottawa this morning. Steve Madely, the host of CFRA’s morning show, was quoting the Toronto school board supporters of this school as saying something like “they believe that students learn better when surrounded by those from a similar background” (not an exact quote, but that was the gist of it).
I couldn’t believe my ears. These are supposed to be liberals? Where are the multiculturalists, rushing to the rescue? I’d like to see someone try to create a “whites only” school using that as a justification.
There is soooo much wrong with this, both in strategy and implementation.
Strategy wise, yes I also agree that I think this is a mistake. It is segregation…..geez the whole US busing controversy was about getting black kids to white schools. Yes it is a different environment there in terms of funding schools, but how isnt this a step backward?
But hey maybe united colours of bennetton schools is just a romanticized notion. Although my kids seem to have no issue being one of a minority of minorities in school.
What is the problem that is being solved…yes there is the obvious point of drop out rates, because nobody fails. Yes kids should finish their education etc. But there has been no real plan put in place. Who is for, what will it solve, will it be only african canadian teachers, are there issues between canadian born and immigrant “black” kids. Is there a difference between carribean and african kids, is it an issue of economic background.
How will you prevent the “hawthorne effect” here. Will the be cherry picking who comes in….i.e. screening for behaviour and inteeligence. One of the reasons why good schools remain good schools is that they attract good students. Need to filter out that effect.
If I were on the board I would have been highly skeptical of this. But here is the heresy. I am open to experimentation. I think that innovation needs to be tried. BUT there has to be a plan and there have to be benchmarks, there has to be goals…the problem you are trying to solve. You need to set the terms so that you can review the results because it is, quite frankly, off strategy from how education should be run.
I dont see a plan yet. I see too many bromides and I am troubled by the pollyannaish idea that if it was just black kids together then they would improve. Of course how you reintegrate these kids back into the mainstream is another question.
Right now this is looking like a really bad idea….of course they already have a gay school in Ontario…..so who knows.
Wonder what the reaction would be for a whites only school.
Wonder what the excuses will be when this fails.
John G “Where are the multiculturalists, rushing to the rescue?”
But this is multi-culti behaviour … it is the antithesis of assimilation. It creates community silos or ghettos. That’s what Librano$ strive for, then they can get each silo addicted to government largess and buy their votes. That is what identity politics is all about.
If the TronnaSkoolBord has a 25% drop-out rate, that spells failure!
Make no mistake about it! This move is all about politics and has nothing whatsoever to do with improving things in the educational system.
Well … unless you’re part of the Toronto school system as an administrator or social worker or maybe as a teacher who does not want to be held accountable for results. That’ll improve things for them by giving them a clear excuse for failing to do what they are supposed to do. And increase budgets and head counts in the ranks at the same time. Win Win situation for them. But for the students? The public?
Not so much win anything there!
Just as major urban centers in the US discovered when their schools became ghetoized … the performance and standards went into a downward spiral.
What was the solution the politicians tried after that? Bussing!
Wait for it!
I remember my university days and being appalled at the course work that the education students took. Mickey mouse courses for the most part, and most of the students took 7 to 10 years to finish a program that you and I could finish in half that time. As a child I had no respect for 90% of the teachers and even less for them now. I know several good ‘old school’ teachers that have quit in disgust – and the kids paid the price of their leaving.
This isn’t about race, folks. This is about a group of pooch screwing public servants serving us crap and telling us it’s ice cream. We shouldn’t let them get away with it. Those kids are failures because their teachers are too.
We need to put the strap and discipline back in public schools, and replace the leather elbows and dead wood with teachers that want to succeed.
Truth be told, MOST of our public schools suck, and the smart thing to do is either home school your kids or put them into private schools.
“Watch for the next step in this brave new social scheme – redefining academic standards to “normalize” Afro-achievement.”
Bang on there, Kate. It’ll be interesting to see how the media spin it.
Missi Matt, the failure would be blamed on the ‘whites’ of course.
Ok, so now I am lost.
Does this mean racial profiling is ok too?
Wonder what the excuses will be when this fails.
Lack of funding.
Not enough black-teachers role models.
Student/teacher ratio too high.
Not enough black-administrators involved in the planning and development of the curriculum.
Three years is too short a time frame to collect and study results and determine its effectiveness.
Not enough after-school programs.
Bussing because school not located in their area.
Curriculum and student performance benchmarks still too Euro-focused.
Whites are just plain racist.
That’s two votes for that, Lookout.
So to sum it up:
Attempting to cite the BENEFITS of an all black school is “progressive”,
attempting to cite the DRAWBACKS of an all black school is “racist”.
Don’t you love the one sided conversations our “progressive” society “tolerates”.
Getting to the point where being called a racist is a badge of honor and integrity these days. -Actual- racists appear to have disappeared entirely, so these Toronto race huckster knobs have expanded the category to anyone with a brain who gives a crap about kids.
Thank GOD I left Toronto! I’m going outside to kiss the frozen Hamilton soil now, yep you betcha.
When you segregate the students, you also get to segregate the statistics.
The Toronto School Board overall failure rate of 25% will suddenly improve. Failure rates at the afro-centric school will be ‘manipulated’ to adjust rates to a more “culturally sensitive” level. Everybody wins!
Anybody have an idea as to what the Toronto Catholic District School Board failure rate might be?
(Thanks, ET and otter.
Yes, I usually ignore this person, but it’s a different thing entirely when he misquotes me. This is, in fact, libel, “a published, false statement damaging to a person’s reputation”.
This person has a right to call me “dummy” but not to quote me as saying it–and other things–if I didn’t. There’s a big difference.
As I said, I think this apparently disturbed person should be given the shove.)
Jim; could not have said it any better.
Kate; your right, RACIST. You beet us all to the punch.
I was taught in a 3 room school house with 3 teacher and multi mixed 1 thru 9 with over 100 students attending. It was the job of older kids that were done there work to teach and help the younger ones thru their work. We had baseball, soccer, skating rink, playground and 10 acres of bush to play in.
None of ever stepped to far over the line because you got the belt at school as well as at home. I’ve seen these people from time to time over the years and everyone of them seem to succeed in life.
I think that about 10 actually graduated, usually at 16 we left home and joined the workforce and were treated as an adult.
This shit never worked with the Indians and it will not work here. My suggestion is to tell the people involved in this scam is to look around, “SEGRAGATION DOES NOT WORK”. Merle Underwood.
john “When you segregate the students, you also get to segregate the statistics.” Good point !!!
Ironically, it is conservatives who want to treat everyone equally, as in equal opportunity NOT equal outcomes … equal outcomes are impossible unless manipulated. By doing as Kate says “normalize Afro-achievement”
McGuinty has not supported Black schools but as with Caledonia he is complicit by not upholding the same standards for all.
McGuinty is a clone of Chrétien, just look happy .. blame someone else … blame the Feds for Caledonia, blame the Americans for guns on our streets, blame the School Board for apartheid; never accept responsibility, never show leadership. There is no need for McGuinty to take the risks of leadership because the Ontario voter will re-elect him anyway.
Focus kids. This one issue has nothing to do with mcliar. It is strictly a trawna issue. Private schools exist throughout the province, and if the idiots prefer to balkanize their system, who cares.
Keep your powder dry, for the time will come soon enough. I am just waiting for him to increase the PST.
BTW, the program in my class which I used very successfully with my black students was altogether Eurocentric. E.g., British novels read aloud and studied in reading. They loved them! There was a progression of skills to be mastered and regular practice and homework expectations. (The latter was very hard to implement because of minimal home support.) I taught formal grammar—in innovative ways—and the favourite incentive was a high tea party, with china cups, or a Teddy Bear’s Picnic!
My boys made excellent gains, within their abilities, because I altogether rejected “the soft racism of low expectations”. A pox on that. It makes me sick to see wasted lives because of the appeasing carried out by so many idiots in the system. My students and I proved over and over again that high behavioural and academic expectations could make a real—and really positive—difference. Did the administration support me and my program? No. Despite invitations to join us, not one administrator visited the class to see what we were doing—the kids were always enthusiastic to show off certain of our techniques, and did with other visitors. Nor would administration weigh in if extra discipline was needed.
In my board, I don’t see anything other than a scatter gun, politically correct approach to the problems of black students. I believe that my approach—and I’m sure there are other teachers like me—could be called “best practice”. No one in authority—white, black, and in between, most are affirmative action hired toadies—bothered to discuss my approach or have me mentor other teachers to use it. (In days long ago, in another board, this was standard practice.)
I can confidently say that focusing on the problems and making excuses is the WORST thing the board can do. But, I predict that that’s just what the hair-brained, politically motivated board functionaries are planning. On the other hand—and it doesn’t need a whole lot of extra, super expensive resources—a strong Eurocentric curriculum—as in reading, writing, and arithmetic, in ENGLISH, not Swahili or Arabic—learned to mastery, along with high behavioural expectations, enforced with discipline, meaning no-nonsense consequences (yes, the kids might NOT like them!), would work wonders.
Public boards are so low on common sense and integrity and so high on political hot air, this scatter brained initiative is not only going to lose $ mega millions, it’s going to lose the productive lives of too many kids who deserve far better. We’re all going to be losers because of this discredited board’s colossal stupidity and hubris.
A brand new product from those gifted multiculturalists – educational ghettoism! Plus, the progressive magic decoder ring can transport society 40 years into the past in the bat of an eye!
I wonder, as part of the Afrocentric studies, if they will be teaching the ‘Melanin and Melanin Theory?’
And can this sort of development be far behind?
Muslim schools to conduct own inspections
By Graeme Paton, Education Editor, London Daily Telegraph
Last Updated: 2:08pm GMT 31/01/2008
“Private Muslim schools have been given the power to police themselves, despite widespread fears over religious segregation, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
In a controversial move, they have won the right to appoint their own Ofsted-style inspectors. A new independent watchdog has been set up to be more “sensitive” toward Islamic education.
Proponents say faith schools need specialist inspectors
The decision comes despite concerns some private Muslim schools are already failing to prepare pupils for life in modern Britain.
Barry Sheerman, the chairman of the Commons schools select committee, told MPs last month local councils were finding it “difficult to know what is going on in some faith schools – particularly Muslim schools”.
But religious leaders defended the move, saying the curriculum and religious traditions in faith schools demand specialist knowledge.
Can someone tell me that if there really is, or ever was, a successful Afrocentric method of teaching, why is there such widespread lack of success and achievement in Africa, the Caribbean and other predominantly black areas.
Call me a racist for saying so, but historicly speaking Africa has contributed so very little to human advancement in the way of science, medicine, technology etc.
Do black kids have a complex because they look around at an advanced world and don’t see many of their own as having played a role in its development? If so, the only way to change that will be to rewrite history.
Sadly, that’s likely to be the first purpose of the new school. If you can’t point to success, what’s left is pointing at something, or somebody else, that denied it to you. Gee, I wonder what or who that could be?
lookout – again, you’ve provided us with a fabulous analysis. I wish, I hope, there are more teachers like you. I know that it’s an isolate world out there for teachers like you, who are Genuine Teachers, not people with a safe tenured job which happens to be called ‘teaching’.
I taught in the university level, a ‘slightly’ different world, but the low expectations in the social sciences and humanities realm was endemic.
You’d essentially get a mark just for submitting the assignment in some classes!
In one university, I was told by my Chair to PASS two students who had very obviously purchased their essays. That’s right; I was told not to ask them to rewrite the essay, themselves. I was told to give them each a ‘pass mark’ (D). I refused. I made them rewrite it, and gave them half marks for it. But, I was the one who suffered from the fury of the Chair, because I had disobeyed him. When I reminded him how unfair his decision was to students who had written the paper themselves but still got low marks- he was even more furious.
The students were only asked to write essays about ‘their opinions’. I told my students I wasn’t interested in their opinions; opinions belong in the coffee shop. Their essays had to be based on two requirements. hard data and logical, critical analysis – based on that data. With marks deducted for spelling and grammar.
Some students were absolutely shocked at the requirement for data and logical analysis. But the good ones were grateful; they often told me that I taught them ‘how to think’ – and they’d use that approach in other classes.
These black schools are going to be a mess. I wonder if smart parents will permit their children to go. Wouldn’t it be interesting if no-one went to these schools? I’ll bet that the Board will ‘bribe’ students to go…they have to show they are a success.
It is, in my view, extremely racist to define people, by their skin colour, as operative within a particular culture. Most of these children have no African background. The many generations past are not relevant to them now. What is the purpose of trying to make them hostage to a mythic culture? Africa, by the way, is not ONE culture, but many. Terrible decision –
I guess Sharia law will not be too far behind.
40 years ago didn’t the black civil rights movement fight for non segregated schools?
Yeah, re faith based schools: when a leftie friend of mine voiced confidence in the Ministry inspectors to supervise and redirect any Muslim irregularities, I predicted exactly the new British model.
Ministry Inspector (on arriving at office in Muslim school): How are things going?
Muslim School Administrator: Fine. Just fine.
Ministry Inspector (on way out the door): Fine. See you next year.
Who thinks it’ll be much different in the Black School? The administrators will likely fudge all kinds of things, including testing and results, and it will all be under the radar.
I also predicted, if there were faith based schools, that Christian schools would fare very differently. The inspectors would probably spend DAYS in those schools going over everything with a fine toothed comb. And how many of these kids end up planning the deaths of our soldiers and PM?
The double standard is sickening. Our authorities are losing the respect of the average citizen so quickly, things do not look good.
This is the province that elect a sorry dickhead as Premier simply because he was against special school funding.
Don’t drink the water in TO it has toxic hypocrisy in it.
It’s actually very simple. The Liberal Progressives have figured out that their brand of racism is acceptable because…ah… well…ah… oh, yeah… just because.
The *movement* is called TURD: Teaching Urban Racial Divisiveness.
So, what would one call a gathering of these liberal, progressive *movements* at a conference? Perhaps a pile of CRAP (Congress on Racial Apartheid Progression) ?
This concept of segregating black students is so stupid, it defies logic. Surely, by now we should have advanced to an era of equal opportunity. Are we going to start busing black children out of their neighbourhoods?
I guess in a mean spirited way I can see only one positive – the criminal element will be segregated from the children who wish to learn and not be ducking bullets.
Isn’t this ghettoization of schools just an extension of our socialist Charter?
Remember its focus is on minority groups, and the elevation of those rights over almost everything else.
When complaining about race-based schools don’t just talk about the leftards in the Toronto school board, look to Trudeau’s great socialist document, and the inequities it prescribes.
ET, we sound like we’re cut from the same mould! I too have had many run-ins with administrators—impostors, I call them—when I challenge their illogical, unjust, and dumbing down “graft”, which is not too strong a word to describe the system the politically motivated boards now employ. (I’m utterly disgusted, as people can see.)
I’m not bragging. I guarantee that if the new, black school were run on the principles I would use, it would be a success. In fact, we wouldn’t need a black school if I ran the education system. Schools would be for EDUCATION. A parallel “boot school” system would be in place. Delinquents would be assigned to “boot school” until they were ready to conform to the standards of the regular schools. ‘Problem is, I don’t know if the board has enough genuine educators in its pool to carry out such a mandate.
Another huge problem? The Charter. The kind and amount of authority needed to subdue the barbarians would be subject to multiple lawsuits. There’d need to be a coalition of boards, country-wide, all with the will—and a war chest—to fight the “rights” crowd, who’ve caused much of the present problem. The boards are so full of left-wing airheads, I don’t think my idea of a coalition would go much beyond my thinking it.
Too bad.
We’re now such a wimp culture, we don’t have the wit or cojones to do the really radical things that need to be done to cut out the multiple “cancers” now plaguing us. And, what happens when cancer cells aren’t identified and their spread stopped—usually by quite unpleasant means? Disability and death are what happens.
As a society, we’re already seriously disabled. SDAers seem to be made of sterner stuff, but, at this point, types like us are not in charge and all our twit elites seem capable of is wringing their hands and standing by to watch the death. Well, as they’re in denial, they’ll watch the death, while saying, “Things aren’t really so bad. Let’s start another taxpayer supported program.” What utter dolts.
Death by suicide seems to be what the West is doing. Kyrie eleison.
We’ve spent the last few summers at an orphanage in Kenya, where they really stress school success.
They use all the “old” teaching methods–memorize your times tables, learn phonics, learn to write a proper sentence. The kids on our team were behind when they sat in on their grade level class.
We brought a whole set of grade 3 & grade 4 math books with us, along with teacher’s materials, that had been used in my district of Ontario until last year. The teachers there decided they couldn’t use them. Too many pictures, not enough work, and not rigorous enough. Maybe for grade 2, but the Kenyan books were better.
So much for Afri-centric.
The real problem for Caribbean born kids is exactly what Kingstonlad said–they have no dads. How a school is supposed to fix that is beyond me. Why don’t we wake up and stop blaming the schools (though they do have a lot of improvement they could make) and start blaming the community. It’s your fault the kids are out of control and aren’t learning because you aren’t raising them! That’s true in many other subsets of society as well, it’s just more rampant in this particular demographic group. And that is just sad.
lookout – regarding your advice on administering my blog – if I policed everyone who misquoted another commentor, I’d have no time left to do anything else. There are hundreds of comments posted here each day. I read only a few.
That said, I remind you that you’re using a nickname. Therefore, it isn’t possible to libel you. You haven’t identified yourself.
I understand that teacher’s at the school will be provided with carry permits 🙂
Ever since kinsella started helping the Ontario Liberals, our province has been moving in the most amazing directions.
Although I blame John Tory. I still think he’s a Liberal plant. No one could have been that stupid by accident.
Toronto Sun poll of the day : Should the province fund Africentric schools?
5143 votes 96% say no.
Kate, in my private communication to you, I did not ask that you police misquotes.
Like some others here, I’ve expressed the opinion that a certain visitor, who breaks most of the rules, would not be missed if he were disallowed. If that breaks one of the house rules, I’m sorry.
And what happens to the graduates of this school? Will they then need “black only” workplaces to continue to “succeed”?