Parent inspired by Marcus Garvey led the campaign to take over the school

RESS · (#1 (**permalink**))

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I have always believed that we can educate our children and help them to achieve high standards.

Dayo Abifarin, Director of Parkside Preparatory School
Parkside Preparatory School has been in existence as a school for over 80 years. Housed in private dwellings built by Sir Roland Hill in 1827, in 1920 it was acquired by an English woman who became the school’s first headmistress. “The school has always had a good reputation. Even before we took over Parkside was known to have very good standards,” Dayo Abifarin, the school’s present owner told Black Britain. Five other English head teachers followed the original principal until 2002, when the sixth head teacher retired.

It was at this point that Abifarin and four other black parents decided to take over the running of the school by forming a limited company. “My son was a pupil at the school and the head teacher was looking to retire and was going to close the school,” he explained. The five parents decided that because it was a good school it was worth preserving for their children and others in the community. “The only options were for us to pull together as parents or find other schools for our children,” so they took the first option.

Abifarin, who describes himself as a ‘Garveyite’, believing in self-reliance and self-determination, told Black Britain: “I have always believed that we can educate our children and help them to achieve high standards.” The decision was not made lightly as each parent had to contribute £2500 to help fund the school. Abifarin also admits that the main challenge they faced was a lack of experience within the education system. “I’m not a teacher and I came into it not knowing anything.” But as time passed Abifarin came to understand through experience exactly what it takes, mentally and physically to run a school.

“Becoming an employer, having to employ teachers and the head teacher, having to deal with parents,” were some of the tasks they had to get to grips with. It was a steep learning curve. “Like most parents I was pretty much an outsider,” he told Black Britain. During the transitional period when Abifarin and the other parents were trying to secure the school’s future, some parents withdrew their children. “When we started out, we didn’t even have enough numbers of children that we needed to keep the school going,” Abifarin explained.

Not all of the parents believed that the new venture would succeed during a period of uncertainty. Although the school originally had a good ethnic mix, after the school was taken over by the black parents, white parents gradually withdrew their children from Parkside, and it is now an all-black school.

School has the recipe for educational success

If we really want to do the best for our children, this might be one of the ways that we need to go about it. Children at Parkside do not fail.

Dayo Abifarin, Director of Parkside Preparatory School
Abifarin told Black Britain that the action of the white parents mirrors the ‘white flight’ phenomenon where whites move out when black families move into to areas that were previously all-white. When asked whether he felt the white parents had no confidence in black parents running the school, Abifarin admitted that this could have been the reason. But he stressed that the school is open to all children, regardless of their skin colour or ethnicity. “My school certainly specializes in educating children of African descent. I wouldn’t turn anyone away, but I can’t force people to bring their children here either.”

Of the five black parents who originally formed Parkside Prep, Abifarin is the only one still involved in the running of the school. “I always knew it would succeed because I was very confident that things could be resolved,” he told Black Britain. The success of the school is due in no small measure to the head teacher, Mr Decent Henry, who was born in St. Vincent and has almost 30 years experience in education.

Henry is a firm believer in traditional teaching methods, which yield favourable results. Abifarin told Black Britain of an occasion when a school inspector ventured into one of Henry’s classes and was surprised at how quiet the children were. “The fact is that when he teaches, the children are quiet. He doesn’t have to worry about their behaviour,” Abifarin said.

Reflecting on the progress of Parkside Prep, Abifarin said: “There are a number of individuals within the local education authority who have been supportive in terms of putting information our way and offering us as much assistance as they can.” But Abifarin feels that generally, official support could have been better. The main credit is due to those closely associated with the school and the parents who remained committed to its development and success.

Parkside can only accommodate 80 children, but Abifarin hopes that other parents of African descent will be inspired to establish schools in their own communities. “What this has taught me is that it is hard, it is challenging, but it can be done.” Abifarin said he would be happy to offer any help and advice to other parents considering following in his footsteps.

“If we really want to do the best for our children, this might be one of the ways that we need to go about it. Children at Parkside do not fail.”

Black Britain | News | Daily News and Sport | All-black primary school puts success down to Marcus Garveyâ€™s principles of self-reliance and self-determination

Soon the White Supremacist Racists will arrive and say;

"What a wonderful job you are all doing here, we think it's really great, we want to invest in this project and share with you some of our management expertise."

Black Lion · (#2 (**permalink**))

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We're having the same results in various prep schools and academies across the country. In fact, one public high school in California decided to have a "closed door" meeting with "Blacks only" to speak on "our" issues and failures. When they got through highlighting the realities to those students...test schools went through the roof!!! These success stories aren't publicized as often as they should be.

Can you post up some information and links about this please? I know some people who would be more than happy to hear about this.

Thanks as well RESS some good news.. would be good to know what they are teaching them.

MarcusGarveyLives · (#3 (**permalink**))

Great work by The Right Excellent Marcus Mosiah Garvey, and one of his followers, Brother Dayo Abifarin, who was a longstanding member of the longest established Garveyite organisation in the UK.

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Marcus Garvey Lives !!!

RESS · (#4 (**permalink**))

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All my black family on here do me one favor.
I want you to know how wicked these crackers are.
I want you to just look who started Planned Parenthood.
I'll tell you, Margaret Sanger. Look up some of her quotes about black people. She called us "cockroaches" and said that we should be exterminated.
Did you know that she was a friend of Hitler and sat at the same tables and recieved awards and praise from that man?
Why do you think Planned Parenthood is in the hood?
Then go and look up how many BLACK CHILDREN are aborted every year. Now don't get all bitchy on this one. I made that mistake once. I had one of my babies aborted. So before you think I'm on some BS, here me out. I'm not preaching.
In the US black deaths from abortions ECLIPSE any other cause of death, yes even AIDS. Now ask yourself why?
Why was Bill Gates' father a president of Planned Parenthood? Why is Bill Gates giving away "vaccines" in Africa and the kids are getting AIDS when their parents don't even have it? Look it up!
Why was Prescott Bush, our president's grandfather, brought before Congress on charges for aiding the Nazis? Look it up. Go to Youtube and find the clip.
All I'm telling you is these crackers want us gone and will do everything they can to make sure it happens.
You BETTER start taking care of your families and making sure those teachers putting BULLSHIT in your kid's heads get checked are run out of the schools. We need black teachers in black neighborhoods. We need black economies and wealth and we need to help and support our own people.
The whites do it. But we think it's foolish to support our own people and look at who runs the world.
One more thing, the UK, the royal family, those mother****ers are German. Look it up. All I know is you better get ya mind right and learn what the f*ck is going on.
That's all. Peace.

Something i saw on another site - Ligali Forums

She has made some good points.

Our time it up here.

Europe is for europeans and has always been since it's inception.

Europeans are people classified as White although many people have been deluded to believe otherwise.

People classified as Black / non-white were invited here to build europe for the europeans.

People classified as Black / non-white were the cheapest option.

The World Bank and the IMF were set up and exist for the benefit of europe.

LadyDay · (#5 (**permalink**))

nice story

girlfromthenc · (#6 (**permalink**))

The media only acknowledges Black inferiority and for good reason! Name one reason why Whites would want Blacks to feel smart?

If you look at the non-White students that tend to excel in school you'll notice that they tend to come from very poor, traditional and closed societies that haven't been as affected by the (White own) mass media. And if you do happen to already live in a White majority societies its up to "you" to fight for a more positive message like these parents did!