Many children have gone back to school this week. My son started kindergarten this week, at our local public school, and although I’m an old veteran of the public school system, I was a bit disheartened at the attitude and appearance of some of our potential best and brightest.
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Our girls need us, parents! With the garbage that the media is trying to feed our girls, especially our black girls, they need our support and an alternate to the trash flowing out of our television sets. Here are some of my favorite books that I used with my class. Some have [...]
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I am a person who is in bed, in my night clothes by 9 pm. Of course, I am an at-home mom whose day begins, whether I like it or not, by 6 am. On top of that, I run a business and am responsible for three little’uns under 5 for most of the day. [...]
After having been around children in the public schools for the past 15 years, there is something that I have noticed that a lot of the so-called “behavior problems” have in common – poor nutrition. Parents, have you even taken a look at what they’re serving in the school lunches these days? A typical lunch [...]
This is reprint of an article from USA Today. I have included the link at the bottom of the post.
‘Not a black thing’: ‘Ghettonation’ examines youth behavior
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald, Special for USA TODAY
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As an educator of over 15 years, a black parent: the mother of three children of my own, I have seen so many black children fall through the cracks and many of them achieve. However, this is not going to a denigration of the school system, but hopefully a guide on how we, as [...]
Readers: This is a reprint of an article that I found here.
African American Children and Identity
By Christine Longmore
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