The black-focused school is a go.
After a heated but civil debate, Canada's largest school board voted 11-9 last night to open an alternative Africentric school to help fight a 40 per cent dropout rate among Toronto's black teens.
It will be interesting to see how many school buses are needed to ensure that no one sits at the front of them...
Somewhere out there, Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King are shaking their heads.
Labels: Race, Toronto