What are your thoughts on homeschooling? What are your thoughts on afrocentric homeschooling?

http://www.geocities.com/blackhomeschool/

It's a pretty good idea. However, I always wonder how homeschooling would affect children's social development, since there's not a chance to be around other kids.

i know for a fact it's a very good thing and have made some great movement
when M.Collins started her home base teaching for the inner kids she made
a big splash in the system of education , while i know the affects on kids
who are home bound for higher learning miss the activities that public schools
offer and programs

I really don't know how it affected these kids , but the one's i know came from
the helm of M. Collins home base schooling & teaching have been outstanding
it's a good thing and what many of the Afro-Centric needs .

It's a pretty good idea. However, I always wonder how homeschooling would affect children's social development, since there's not a chance to be around other kids.


Well after what happened in that elementary school in philadelphia...I don't want my kids in public school...having my child endangered..smh

Well after what happened in that elementary school in philadelphia...I don't want my kids in public school...having my child endangered..smh

Private school got bad kids too Nisa!

I think Afro-centric homeschooling is excellent for our children. After all our ancestors were home schooled and learned about their story FIRST (know thy self) and the result of their accomplishment is evident around the world....!

I think it is a very good idea that needs more of our time and resources.

I believe the idea is awesome....one filled with the potential for empowerment.

If you are a working single parent this doesn't seem possible.

I'm sure sista something can be done and worked out if this what
the single parent wants ...........there are places like the M.Collins
who teach home base schooling and this far every one of her kids
have degrees and have nice jobs ........

History


Marva Collins grew up in Atmore, Alabama at a time when segregation was the rule. Black people were not permitted to use the public library, and her schools had few books, and no indoor plumbing. Nonetheless, her family instilled in her an awareness of the family’s historical excellence and helped develop her strong desire for learning, achievement and independence. After graduating from Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia, she taught school in Alabama for two years. She moved to Chicago and taught in Chicago’s Public School system for fourteen years.

Her experiences in that system, coupled with her dissatisfaction with the quality of education that her two youngest children were receiving in prestigious private schools, convinced her that children deserved better than what was passing for acceptable education. That conviction led to her decision to open her own school on the second floor of her home. She took the $5,000 balance in her school pension fund and began her educational program with an enrollment of her own two children and four other neighborhood youngsters.

Thus, Westside Preparatory School was founded in 1975 in Garfield Park, a Chicago inner-city area. During the first year, Marva took in learning disabled, problem children and even one child who had been labeled by Chicago Public School authorities as borderline retarded. At the end of the first year, every child scored at least five grades higher proving that the previous labels placed on these children were misguided. The CBS program, 60 Minutes, visited her school for the second time in 1996. That little girl who had been labeled as border line retarded, graduated in 1976 from college Summa Cum Laude. It was documented on the 60 Minutes programs in 1996. Marva’s graduates have entered some of the nation’s finest colleges and universities, such as Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, to mention just a few. And, they have become physicians, lawyers, engineers, educators, and entered other professions.

Ms. Collins has received many accolades in recognition of her outstanding work with children. She was featured on Good Morning, America, 20/20, Fox News, and many more programs too numerous to list. A made-for-television movie titled, The Marva Collins Story starred Cicely Tyson and Morgan Freeman first aired in1 1982, and is still presented on television. Some of her awards include:

The Jefferson Award for Benefiting the Disadvantaged
The Humanitarian Award for Excellence
Legendary Women of the World Award
Many honorary doctoral degrees from universities such as Amherst, Dartmouth, Notre Dame, and Clark University
The prestigious National Humanities Medal from President Bush in 2004She has turned the responsibilities of running her school over to her daughter, Cynthia B. Collins, who was one of the first students in the Westside Preparatory School.