Vision Circle

Education to Govern

The four-week "anniversary" (technically that isn't the right word) of homeschooling is this week. It's gone ok, though we've had some life stuff in the middle. Since we jumped into it as a response to structual failures we didn't have time to really think out what the process would look like. We're dealing with those issues now. How long should the day be? What type of currriculum should we use? Should we go the classical education route or should we think about other options? I culled this from Boggs:

Concrete programs which prepare black youth to govern are the logical next step for rebellious black youth who, having reached the stage of Black Power in the sense of Black Pride, Black Consciousness, and total rejection of the present social system, are not sure where to go.  Young people whose self-concept has undergone a fundamental change must be given concrete opportunities to change their actual conditions of life.  Otherwise, they can only exhaust and demoralize themselves in isolated acts of adventurism or in symbolic acts of defiance or escapism.

I don't think the book has been written yet about the opportunity that was lost when we had a chance in cities like Detroit and Gary to remake the school system for our kids. If it was written it needs to be reprinted.