The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #102927   Message #2099066
Posted By: Riginslinger
10-Jul-07 - 04:14 PM
Thread Name: BS: Education, Race 'n Community...
Subject: RE: BS: Education, Race 'n Community...
"I talking about these subject being taught with from a Euro-centric framework and with text books and other materials which promote a Euro-centric worldview, and which provide little information or slanted information about other cultures and other parts of the world:"

       Azizi - Yeah, I didn't get the drift of what you were saying until a short while after I posted my last comment. The staff was probably teaching American History--or something related--and used those text books to demonstrate another side to it. That would make sense and that's probably what they did.

       As I was there without a whole lot to do, I rummaged around in the library and looked through their curriculum quite a bit. The music, it seemed to me, was almost exclusively Afro-Centric, as was a lot of the Art.

       The building itself was four stories, old, dark, dank, and the restrooms were awful. Toilets and urinals were brown, sinks smelled terrible. In fact, if it wasn't for the new paint the workers were putting down at the time, the entire building would have smelled like raw sewage.
       The idea that we, as a society, were sending children there to go to school was nothing short of disgusting. It was enough to tear your heart out.