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If not, check this site out.=20 They're called CarsDirect.com and it's a pretty sweet way to buy a car. http://click.egroups.com/1/6847/17/_/26676/_/968263080/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> Freedom Schooling=20 By Grace Lee Boggs=20 Michigan Citizen Newspaper, 8/20/2000 At the June meeting of the Black Radical Congress in Detroit, conferees=20 delegates decided to launch a campaign for =E2=80=9CEducation, not Incarcer= ation.=E2=80=9D=20 That means we have to redefine what we mean by Education. We can=E2=80=99t = possibly=20 mean the present system which is widely recognized as responsible for so ma= ny=20 of our young people ending up in prison.=20 For example, at the Back to Basics Community Convention held in Detroit on= =20 Saturday, May 6, the Education Task Force passed the following resolution:= =20 WHEREAS the current educational system has been organized to fail 50% of ou= r=20 young people, many of whom end up in prison, and=20 WHEREAS the current system does not develop critical thinking or build=20 community.=20 BE IT RESOLVED=20 1. That we create a community curriculum that will empower our children to= =20 recognize the truth from untruth and develop the ability to assess=20 information for=20 the best possible solution for themselves and for the community; and=20 2. That we develop tutorial programs that will implement a community=20 curriculum that=20 includes remediation but emphasizes critical thinking and empowering=20 children to=20 make a difference.=20 Today=E2=80=99s schools build addicts and prepare our children for prison b= ecause=20 they teach passivity whereas what our children need most is a sense of=20 themselves as change agents and decision makers. Our children need not only= =20 academics but character building.=20 To appreciate their neighborhoods and understand their environment.=20 To be developed as whole persons with manual, mental, social and=20 environmental skills.=20 To become resourceful and independent thinkers.=20 To see themselves in the context of community and practice what enhances=20 community life.=20 To recognize their worth because their input makes a difference.=20 To work together to change the community.=20 In the 1960s Movement activists had to create Freedom Schools in the South= =20 because the existing school system had been organized to produce subjects,= =20 not citizens. People in the community, both children and adults, needed to = be=20 empowered to exercise their civil and voting rights. To bring about a kind = of=20 =E2=80=9Cmental revolution,=E2=80=9D reading, writing and speaking skills w= ere taught=20 through the discussion of black history, the power structure and building a= =20 Movement to struggle against it. Everyone took this basic =E2=80=9Ccivics= =E2=80=9D course=20 and then chose from more academic subjects, like algebra and chemistry.=20 All over Mississippi, in church basements and parish halls, on shady lawns= =20 and in abandoned buildings, volunteer teachers empowered thousands of=20 children and adults through this community curriculum.=20 This is the kind of Freedom Schooling that we need today.=20 <<http://www.boggscenter.org/>> How to Unsubscribe from BLACK-LEFT This is for ALL the folks who keep sending email to the list asking to unsubscribe. 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