wh..wh..whaaaaaattt? I don’t…know…uh. I.
A little help over here…because um. I.
*runs away*
I’m torn part of me is all WTF?! but then I think of Edmonton’s Nellie McClung Program, and that’s a public school that’s exclusively for girls. Do I think it’s going to be effective, hard to say, but the minority gap is a very real problem. The kind of arguments I see people raising kind of reminds me of those conversation I’m sure most of us had with our parents at some point re: Mother’s/Father’s Day, and how every other day of the year is a celebration of the child with respect to the whitewashing/Eurocentric focus of history.
Beyond learning about the Underground Railroad, I can’t recall a single other Black Canadian history focus throughout elementary, but perhaps my memory is failing me — that was ages ago.
It’s the sort of thing I could totally see my parents being really into and if this had been around when I was that age, I could see them having wanted me to attend.
The school is technically open to anyone, but that’s neither here nor there.
I’d love to see the curriculum.
