Let's say you wanted to start a school for black children, how would you go about it?

[Poitier]

KIPP got its funding from the government and Toronto housing project program I mentioned in my previous post got a mixture of government funds and private funds. I'm sure you could get a significant amount from the government (though it might have to be quietly bundled into a package of other funding because there will be a shyt storm if funding was proposed strictly for this purpose, at least in america unfortunately) and any deficit you'll have to hustle for, probably on a global scale. Someone would need to hit up bill gates and oprah lol.

Canada ain't America. You aren't getting money from the government or any domestic bank that is covering operational cost in America.

Relying on rich benefactors is a plan doomed to fail. You'd have to go global.

 

[QuintessentialBM]

Have you considered maybe starting an after school program where you incorporate some of the things they don't get in whatever cac school they go to? Maybe it'd be a lot cheaper than opening up an actual school and I'm assuming you won't need gov't approval.

That would be a more realistic idea.

 

[QuintessentialBM]

Speaking of Ivy League schools, Brown was actually founded with slavery money...

found that out today...

The Brown brothers were huge slave traders and owners...

Yeah, this burns me up... Why can we have our own private institutions? (rhetorical)

 

[newarkhiphop]

yes they are u clown. stayin the midwest u bamma

lived in Newark my whole life, just moved out two years ago, spent the last 6 years there working in public and charter schools, both of which are some of the worst in the country. People think Newark charter schools are better because of the whole imaginary exclusivity image they probably provide with the lottery system to get in, there slightly different curriculums, mandatory uniforms and there ability to easier expel problem kids and a bunch of other little tactics they use but a (despite all the fancy stats) kids there academically barely do better than public school kids

but keep telling yourself they better cuz your kids ain't with them chancellor Ave / Avon Ave / McKinley St kids

 

[↓R↑LYB]

Yeah, this burns me up... Why can we have our own private institutions? (rhetorical)

We just need someone to start one man. My spirits been low lately in trying to continue my activism work because of the dudes in the organization I belong to, but I watched the Million Man March speech for the first time today and hearing Farrakhan speak put a fire back into me. I've tried to work with multiple organizations and all of them had been abysmal failures but I told myself I'm not going to stop.

My goal is to continue to focus on economic empowerment of black people, start businesses, employ black men and women, and use a percentage of my proceeds to fund initiative I believe in. I'm gonna focus on trying to find black business owners who are willing to donate and help raise money and try to put like a million dollars into an after school program in Atlanta. Teach them about African history, white supremacy, and the importance of entrepreneurship and activism; along with helping them with their schooling and getting into a college/university and mentoring. My girl is a teacher and went to an HBCU so she can def help me with making sure the program is legit.

I want to give it my all in 2015 because I feel it's my responsibility to liberate my people.

 

[Dr. Acula]

My girl is a teacher and she said if she could change one thing about education she said she'd make school year round

Maybe your girl is right I'm just thinking about in the context of my work and college and if I wasn't able to take time off occasionally think I would went crazy. Plus its been shown that workers for example who get time off are more productive than those who don't. I'd figure maybe the same principle could be applied to pre-k to 12.
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[↓R↑LYB]

Maybe your girl is right I'm just thinking about in the context of my work and college and if I wasn't able to take time off occasionally think I would went crazy. Plus its been shown that workers for example who get time off are more productive than those who don't. I'd figure maybe the same principle could be applied to pre-k to 12.
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They get breaks, they just don't get the 3 months summer vacation. She says kids lose about 40% of what they learn and the first couple months is teaching them all the shyt they forgot from last year. I think she said you go to school fro 3 months, then get 2 weeks off or something like that.

 

[Dr. Acula]

Canada ain't America. You aren't getting money from the government or any domestic bank that is covering operational cost in America.

Relying on rich benefactors is a plan doomed to fail. You'd have to go global.

Well KIPP is in the US. It was able ot get government funding under charter school funding. Their main target are "inner city" schools or as we all know, black schools.

The issue with this idea i think though that I think you're driving at is that if you're going to say its a "black school" you won't get funding and that comes with a lot of political bullshyt. So you'll have to be politically smart about how you go about it. Inner city school seems to be the working keyword to make shyt like this pass.

By the way, its not lost that unfortunately all this is under the assumption you are still under an American System where the political and social climate is singificantlly anti-black. So the pie in the sky solution would require a black country or another country where blacks are welcomed.

 

[Brandon M.]

lived in Newark my whole life, just moved out two years ago, spent the last 6 years there working in public and charter schools, both of which are some of the worst in the country. People think Newark charter schools are better because of the whole imaginary exclusivity image they probably provide with the lottery system to get in, there slightly different curriculums, mandatory uniforms and there ability to easier expel problem kids and a bunch of other little tactics they use but a (despite all the fancy stats) kids there academically barely do better than public school kids

but keep telling yourself they better cuz your kids ain't with them chancellor Ave / Avon Ave / McKinley St kids

bruh, they published all the test scores for every school in jersey a month...do urself a favor and look up the numbers

 

[The_Truth]

I went to a HBCU and the experience opened my eyes. You learn so much about yourself, your people, your history and identity. You see things differently. Like a blind man seeing the world for the first time Alot of people on The Coli are on the same wave. The problem is for every one of us, there's ten of us out in the world that are lost. I'm 26 and I have a 15 year old nephew. I'm always teaching him things about Black/African history. I told him about Mansa Musa. How he was the richest man on Earth, about his pilgrimage to Mecca. He went to school and asked his teacher about it, his teacher said he never heard about him I tell my nephew about Ancient Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, the Moors....he tells me when he tells his friends this stuff, they look at him and say Blacks were only ever slaves These are our children breh. I'm thinking about it for real. Within the next 5 years I would want to open a school for inner city kids....basically a HBCU for high school students.

I haven't thought it out but, I would want to offer the following:
General Studies (Math, Science, English)
Black/African History
Programming (HTML, CSS, Java, PHP)

• I think this is really important. These white boys out here creating billion dollar tech companies because somebody placed a computer and a C++ book in their lap when they were 9 years old. Blacks don't do this. I would want at the very least every kid to know how to build a small website.

Personal Finance (Self-explanatory)
Business Courses (Investing, Economics, Finance)

• I think this is important too. I would want at the very least every kid to know the difference between a balance sheet, cash flow statement, income statement. What a DCF analysis is. How interest rates affect bond prices. Assets, liabilities. Preliminary things like that.

If I could send 50 kids every year to Howard, Morehouse and Hampton, I'd feel like I did my part

If I ever hit the big lottery (like in the hundred millions) I'm planning on starting a school for black boys in my city. Personally, I think young black males learn best in gender-segregated environments because most of the dumb shyt many of them get involved in is to impress girls. So take away that distraction so they can focus on their work. The philosophy of the school curriculum would be centered on economic empowerment, so they can learn good money management habits. One of the main reasons multiple generations of the same family stay in poverty is because they pass down the same bad habits of handling money. From parent to child. The primary purpose of my ideal school would be to teach how to approach money the same way rich people do. One of the most important statements I've heard was this, "Rich people send their kids to schools that teach them how to run the country. Poor people send their kids to schools that teach them how to work for rich people."

I would eventually start one for black girls too.