Brehs, this shyt dawned on me recently
My mom and pops took me out of public school for some reason. I wasn't stupid or anything, most of the school councilors told my pops to put me in a private school in a "better area" aka a white school
After they said that shyt, my parents transferred me to a school called Marcus Garvey Leadership Charter School
I remember reciting the "pan african pledge" It was something like this
Here's to the red of it, our blood runs with it.
Here's to the green of it, our land flows with it
Here's to the black of it, our people are strong with it or some shyt. I can't remember all of it
They were a great school when I was going to it. We learned a lot about Africa and other subjects. I remember we had a teacher name Mr. Albostic that taught us how to write in egyptian hieroglyphics. He got fired for popping this kid in the hand with a ruler
Most of the teachers when I was going there were from Africa and were highly educated. This one this one of the teachers wife's, that was from Africa, was breastfeeding her baby in the hallway and me and my bros was peeping hard
Then she started to yell at us and whatever language she was speaking
But in all, it was an amazing school and great teachers. I know Umar Johnson talks about making an pan-african school and such. It will only work if he has good leadership, which my old school had. We even got to vote for a school mascot. Panther one by a landslide They're closed now though. Some teacher was molesting one of the students and the school's bad academics came to light because of failed leadership.
When the school was under good leadership, ALL parents attended parent teacher conferences without being forced, all parents attended programs we had a school. We learned about black leaders that other school didn't tell us about. During my time in middle school and high school, not once did I hear about Malcolm X. We learned shyt that public school didn't want us to learn about. The school was even beating the white schools in academic scores during the time I was there. We even had a teacher that taught us how to play the african drums and to sing old African songs
Might sound like rambling, but I just wanted to share my story of going to a pan-african school
Here's a pamphlet on the school:
http://ok.gov/sde/sites/ok.gov.sde/files/SIG-MarcusGarveyApp.pdf
My mom and pops took me out of public school for some reason. I wasn't stupid or anything, most of the school councilors told my pops to put me in a private school in a "better area" aka a white school
After they said that shyt, my parents transferred me to a school called Marcus Garvey Leadership Charter School
I remember reciting the "pan african pledge" It was something like this
Here's to the red of it, our blood runs with it.
Here's to the green of it, our land flows with it
Here's to the black of it, our people are strong with it or some shyt. I can't remember all of it
They were a great school when I was going to it. We learned a lot about Africa and other subjects. I remember we had a teacher name Mr. Albostic that taught us how to write in egyptian hieroglyphics. He got fired for popping this kid in the hand with a ruler
Most of the teachers when I was going there were from Africa and were highly educated. This one this one of the teachers wife's, that was from Africa, was breastfeeding her baby in the hallway and me and my bros was peeping hard
Then she started to yell at us and whatever language she was speakingBut in all, it was an amazing school and great teachers. I know Umar Johnson talks about making an pan-african school and such. It will only work if he has good leadership, which my old school had. We even got to vote for a school mascot. Panther one by a landslide
They're closed now though. Some teacher was molesting one of the students and the school's bad academics came to light because of failed leadership.When the school was under good leadership, ALL parents attended parent teacher conferences without being forced, all parents attended programs we had a school. We learned about black leaders that other school didn't tell us about. During my time in middle school and high school, not once did I hear about Malcolm X. We learned shyt that public school didn't want us to learn about. The school was even beating the white schools in academic scores during the time I was there. We even had a teacher that taught us how to play the african drums and to sing old African songs
Might sound like rambling, but I just wanted to share my story of going to a pan-african school
Here's a pamphlet on the school:
http://ok.gov/sde/sites/ok.gov.sde/files/SIG-MarcusGarveyApp.pdf
?" I was shocked she never heard of it before. We never did the pledge of allegiance, we had pictures of Egyptian kings on the wall and they were all black, we had an african dance class, and our ties were the same color as Kente cloths.