Philly schools to require African history class

[PICK3]

PHILADELPHIA, Philadelphia (AP) -- City high school students will be required to take a class in African and African American history to graduate, a move that education experts believe is unique in the nation.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/06/09/african.history.ap/index.html

 

[Gambino]

seems like a good idea...nothing wrong with diversity in knowledge

 

[PICK3]

seems like a good idea...nothing wrong with diversity in knowledge

Yeah, perhaps they should learn the history of Italy also.

 

[Gambino]

Yeah, perhaps they should learn the history of Italy also.

i learned a bit about Italy...you learn about European history, why not African as well???

 

[Razorguns]

PHILADELPHIA, Philadelphia (AP) -- City high school students will be required to take a class in African and African American history to graduate, a move that education experts believe is unique in the nation.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/06/09/african.history.ap/index.html

If there's a lot of african american students in that school...yeah, it makes sense.

 

[NJjuice22]

great idea, those people went through 400 years of sick pieces of shit...they deserve a class.

 

[Hengst]

Great news!!

Finally, a course in african history that will include an examination of the tribes that captured and sold their fellow africans to the atlantic slave trade, and to the arab slave trade.

Or do you think it will be an excersize in white guilt and only focus on the devil white man?... a la:
The African American Odyssey, by Darline Hine

A quick look at Amazon's review says the book "begins in sixteenth century Africa with the beginning of the forced migration of millions of Africans to the Americas. Succeeding chapters present the struggle of black people to maintain their humanity during the slave trade and as slaves in North America during the long colonial period."

 

[WODIN]

Kyl Whyty!


Lol!!!

 

[PICK3]

If there's a lot of african american students in that school...yeah, it makes sense.

Really? What if their are a few oriental students?

I think it should be offered as an elective ... not mandatory.

 

[Cutiebaby]

seems to me like it is a good idea....not to be rude but the african americans are every where now.....so we should have a class in order to graduate on there history