Did Dr Umar Johnson school open this semester?

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No Sleep said:
I talked to someone who talked to someone. School is delayed currently plans to open winter 2022, looking for some brothers to donate their skills and materials for plumbing services.

Plans to have a Football program. Will have 3500 seat capacity stadium with a turf field made of Pan African Colors. Also the gym is being upgraded for basketball.

Umar Johnson SILENCES Haters! Gives Inside Tour of School.

Dafunkdoc_Unlinited said:
Breh, it took him about 9 years to raise $750,000 for this 'school'. I've been in the building/home improvement/energy conservation trade for almost 20 years and I'd just like to point out what I saw from the tour and a couple other videos on this property:
Dafunkdoc_Unlinited said:
  • The roofs are shot. It'll take at least $350,000 to repair them.
  • Buildings need new windows/doors so that's another $150,000 - $200,000.
  • Needs new plumbing, electrical work, drywall, etc, so that's about another $400,000 or more.
  • Needs school supplies like desks, chairs, blackboards, computers, books, gym equipment and I have NO idea how much those cost aside from PCs. So, you figure about 20 (at the least) with requisite networking peripherals, cabling, servers, UPS, etc, could run as much as $50,000 - $100,000.
  • He wants to stucco the outside so that's EASILY another $400,000

So far, we're looking at another $1,500,000 just to get it up and running. Since it took him 9 years for half that, we can estimate that it'll be another 18 years before this school opens.​

That's not all. The school is in Wilmington, DE. There are approximately 2,500 school-aged children there. Of that number, 58% are Black. Of THAT number, half are female, so, that leaves his school to serve a student body consisting of about 800 boys. The average income in that city is $39,000. What are his tuition fees? Can anyone that lives there afford to attend the school even if subsidies are approved?​

Now, I'm all for cats trying to help our people get ahead, but from what I see, this ain't gon' work.​
 

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Have any of y’all ever been to Wilmington De? I have multiple times. I go with a family member who has to see a specialist at the Nemours Children hospital there. His school is located in the hood. The real hood. Wilmington is in the top 10 of murders. It’s a very depressing area for black people. I have NEVER seen so many liquor stores concentrated in such a small area.


If he was opening the school for the community it would be awesome. But he is not. If this phantom school ever got off the ground he wants to charge a lot per student. No way in hell most black parents in that community could pay for it
 
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