Black Education / Schools : 1st Graduating Class of Oprah's S. African Girl's School

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1st class graduates from school Oprah Winfrey built for struggling South African girls



By Associated Press, Updated: Wednesday, November 30, 11:17 AM



HENLEY-ON-KLIP, South Africa — Mpumi Nobiva was raised by her grandmother in a neighborhood beset by poverty and crime after her mother died of AIDS. Now one of the first to graduate from Oprah Winfrey’s school, she is headed to college in North Carolina.
Winfrey spent $40 million to give her girls a campus with computer and science labs, a library and a wellness center. None paid tuition. The students are high-achievers, often from communities where schools are struggling to overcome the legacy of apartheid.



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Winfrey told her students that when you teach a girl, you teach a nation.
“The first class, my class, will prove that,” said Nobiva, 18, who will study visual and performing arts at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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The school has drawn sometimes harsh attention because of the celebrity who founded it, and also because of early problems.
Students have been accused of being spoiled. Allegations that a woman employed to care for the girls in their dormitory had instead abused teens were the subject of headlines around the world. The woman was acquitted last year.
Earlier this year, a newborn born to a student at the school was found dead, again drawing international attention.
“Yes, we’ve had bad coverage,” Nobiva said. “But it has certainly made us stronger.”
... http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/1st-class-graduates-from-school-winfrey-built-for-struggling-south-african-girls/2011/11/30/gIQAkICPCO_story.html
 
If that school turned out 100 graduates per year in 100 years it would only produce 10,000 graduates. What will the world be like in 100 years? Who knows? Even gueses would be absurd.

$40,000,000 could have purchased 200,000 OLPC computers. If Oprah had spent $10,000,000 developing a computer curriculum and then used $30,000,000 for computers that would be 150,000 kids with educational computers. Even if it was only 10% effective that would be 15,000 educated kids and not waiting 100 years.

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