Modern African families are curious and like to meet visitors from afar.
--Fee, a black conservative (I'm not an 'African-American'. I was born in the USA and am proud of it)
Will the textbooks be written by Louis Farrakhan?........
I was required to that that class in college. The instructors were too bigoted to be objective in the least. We need to put our foot down now.
Hateing Whitey 101
I wonder why it wasn't offered as an elective? Hmmm....
Way back when I was in the 3rd grade in the 70s I found a hero in George Washington Carver. It's strange that I would learn about the man way back in those dark and evil days before we learned anything about black history.
Sounds like a good idea to me. They can start by studying Zimbabwe and Angola.
I'm seriously glad I left the public school system in 2001. I could not have graduated at a better time. By the time I have kids they'll be forced to take all sorts of pathetic "diversity training" and what not- and I'm sure it'll focus entirely on one or two "underrepresented minorities", while leaving all the other ones out to dry.
I bet the Philadelphia school system will place more emphasis on this crap than actual American history.
Modern African families are curious and like to meet visitors from afar.
Libertarian ping.To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here I'm more white than I am black, more Scoth than I am Irish, more German than I am English. But more than that, I'm more American than I am anything, so I'll just settle for American too, (even though I was born in Massachooooosettes). :>
I would not mind stuff like this being the focus of a course. http://www.innovationodyssey.com/smallpox.htm
This really should be American history though. A really good African history course would be a survey course going from ancient to modern, from the top of the continent to the bottom, Cairo to Cape Town in other words.
LMAO! Believe me, nobody who gives a rat's behind about their kids sends them into the Philadelphia government schools! None of this pathetic stupidity matters to you or me or the rest of normal America, so let them have their "African History Class". I think it's hilarious! No doubt the other third of students in the Philadelphia School System, the Hispanics and Asians, will just LOVE "African History Class", lol.
This new mandatory requirement will certainly chase away the handful of remaining white students, if indeed there are still any white students left in the Philadelphia Schools. Perhaps that's the whole idea.
i wonder how they do in math and english?
I got news for you, this is standard knowledge for getting an Associates Degree (2 year college degree) in Texas.
I wonder if George Washington Carver needed this class in order to become a scientist. Or Duke Ellington to become a composer. Or Harriet Trubman to be a great activist.
Will the coursebook contain a chapter on "Hoosier Daddy"?
"Today we will study how Rhodesia, the Jewel of Africa, became Zimbabwe, the Basket Case Nation" Or perhaps we won't?
and people wonder why companies want to either outsource or bring in more people from other nations...
"The brothers and sisters are in charge!"
--Phila. Mayor John Street on the complexion of his administration.