Afro Scouts Boost Students' Studies and Self-Confidence

[Aptrgangr]

Afro Scouts Boost Students' Studies and Self-Confidence

"Your brain is a what? Muscle! And it needs what? Exercise every day!"

A roomful of children wearing caps emblazoned with "Afro Scouts" eagerly answer their scout master Azikiwe Ayo who asked, "Are you ready?" "Yes, Mr. Ayo!" comes the loud reply.





Ayo teaches in Sacramento's Del Paso Heights School District. Ayo explained many of the students are lagging behind. All five schools in the tiny district are on program improvement plans because of low test scores.

Ayo has the scouts read together and punctuate each sentence. "Today is Monday 2007, period. It is very warm, exclamation point." The 31-year teacher veteran said the Afrocentric curriculum holds the scouts' interest.

"Afro Scouts learn to read fluently in English," he said. "Afro Scouts learn information about Africa and the Egyptians and how they were the first people to invent the alphabet, and they learn about African-American people who invented things to help this country."

The students, grades K-4, also learn Swahili, an African language. "When Africans come to America they're not only bilingual. They're trilingual, quadrilingual," Ayo pointed out. "When the Japanese come here, they're bilingual and trilingual. African-American children only know English. So to get them interested in English, I put in something different."

Obina Amuneke, 8, said he's learned adjectives, nouns and prepositional phrases in both languages. And he'll be ready if he meets another child who speaks Swahili. "When you talk to kids you can talk back to them and be friends and stuff," Amuneke said.

Ayo explained many of the scouts have little experience outside of school and their neighborhood. So he takes them on numerous field trips. , "We've been to Raging Waters [Amusement Park], Kids Day and fishing," said 7-year-old Alexcyia Bradley.

At the end of the summer session the scouts will spend three days at Disneyland.

Ayo explained, "It's a little reward for all of their hard work. They deserve it." He added, "Like the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts, we stress good character and leadership. We also focus on fitness and tell the children they need to eat right and not eat junk food."

During the school year the Afro Scouts meet once a week. The summer session meets after summer school classes at Del Paso Elementary School. Ayo said he has also started the group in North Highlands, Rancho Cordova, Sacramento's Glen Elder Neighborhood and Brooklyn, New York.

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And after they have visited Disneyland, the spearhead of afrocentrism should make his muscle work hard again as there are more bad news waiting...

[Strengthandhonour]

haha this reminds me of this t-shirt I once saw this guy wearing that said "The first civilization" and it had a picture of this black guy like building a pyramid.

[FlashVoyager]

Try establishing a "Euro Scouts" in the US(of)A, they'll probably attempt to deport you.

[meadhbh]

Originally Posted by FlashVoyager

Try establishing a "Euro Scouts" in the US(of)A, they'll probably attempt to deport you.

Thats what I was thinking.

[Caradoc]

they should need a lesson in history first, and then consider starting a group that uses that history in their program, cause this is just historical rape, next thing they come up with is that they build that 'face' on Mars

[Gavril]

Not a bad idea. So the project has some flaws - they mean well and probably do much good for the kids.

[Caradoc]

well as long as they don't do it in my back yard

[Gavril]

Agreed. That, or selling crack.

[Señor Malo]

Originally Posted by Caradoc

next thing they come up with is that they build that 'face' on Mars

I was one of the first to suggest that the face of Mars showed clear Atlantish features (That is an old story)

Originally Posted by Caradoc

they should need a lesson in history first, and then consider starting a group that uses that history in their program, cause this is just historical rape

It is a historical rape for sure but the worst of all that is that is a historical rape supported by the USA Government and their "Black History Month" (which takes place every year, during the month of February - I wander; is it a coincidence if they have chosen the shortest month of the year for that? )

Strange enough no afro-centrist ever quotes as reference
Senegal Nobel Prize Leopold Senghor who wrote a more objective book on Afro and sanid History...

About Ancient Egypt, it is true that there might have been negrid blood among ancient egyptians but afro-centrist do not only overestimate the Afro blood in ancient Egypt, but their also overestimate the ancient Egypt legacy
As far as Western/European civilization is concerned, we owe much more to Sumerians
BTW it is sad to note how little informed we are about European proto-historical cultures;
Long before the first Egyptian Dynasty emerged, Western Europe Megalithic civilizations were able to succesfully perform trepanating operations and there are evidences that also practised post-mortem necropsias in order to seek for the causes of mortality

Brain surgery and necropsias in Neolithic Western Europe?

Old Danubian Civilizations had developped by the times of the first Kurgan cultures their own alphabet.

[Lucas Corso]

Originally Posted by FlashVoyager

Try establishing a "Euro Scouts" in the US(of)A, they'll probably attempt to deport you.

I think in Europe too