Hello everyone!

My great passion is education. I believe that everyone in our community should be coming together to ensure that no matter what choices our children make they are well versed in all things and that it might create a domino effect down the next generative chain line.

Leading by example is the key to show them that they can overcome all things, with only a little determination, trust and confidence in oneself, imagine where a lot of this will go...

I am pleased to share with you a web site that will be of interest to everyone in our community, http://www.school-info4u.com
A particular demand exists for a web site that delivers clear and specific advice to parents and carers who are raising African-Caribbean children. School-info4u.com is currently listed as the number two 'unique site' on Blackrefer.com, it had previously been number one for a week.

School-info4u.com has the leverage to make a difference. It is dedicated to promoting educational achievement and acts as an advocacy service for parents and carers.

School-info4u.com can help parents and carers present their views and concerns to their child’s school, the governing body or their local education authority etc and have those concerns addressed.
This might be in relation to various issues, ranging from appealing exclusion and dealing with incidents at school to special educational needs and school transfers.

Parents and carers can also get help to write letters, and negotiate for services on their child’s behalf.
They will also get the opportunity to learn important skills like:

•How to prepare and put together a strong case for an exclusion hearing.
•How to prepare for a school meeting and use the forum to clarify problems and make written agreements.
•How to find out how decisions are made and by whom.
•How to get teachers and other professionals to take the appropriate action that will support their child.

Other topics include: Adult education, how to become a school governor, mentoring, music and its influence on young people, proverbs and old sayings from Africa and the Caribbean and proactive parenting.

I hope that everone will take some time to look at this web site and hopefully promote it to family and friends. We really need to get the message out...to as many people in the black community as possible.

I guess most people would find it deeply uncomfortable talking about what’s really going on with the state of our youth and their education. They feel relatively secure and content in their personal lives, and choose to avoid matters that might disturb their contentment. But as long as we choose complacency over awareness, we can’t change the status quo. In fact, the problems will likely grow in magnitude until people are finally forced to open their eyes and deal with the consequences.

The sooner each one of us decides that we do want to know, and that we are willing to invite others to open their eyes, the more easily we will be able to build an education system and support network that supports children of colour. I guess that it ain’t gonna happen overnight though…but again, optimism...a flicker of hope in these difficult times!

For me it’s all about trying to do my little bit to try and transform our community...ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. I believe that any small thing that one person can do to help another will make all the difference and I feel as though I am doing this with the School-info4u.com project.

Take a look at http://www.school-info4u.com

All feedback welcomed, peace ‘n’ much luv!

I guess most people would find it deeply uncomfortable talking about what’s really going on with the state of our youth and their education. They feel relatively secure and content in their personal lives, and choose to avoid matters that might disturb their contentment. But as long as we choose complacency over awareness, we can’t change the status quo. In fact, the problems will likely grow in magnitude until people are finally forced to open their eyes and deal with the consequences.

Two questions.

Who will be doing the forcing?

Do you consider dealing is the same as solving a problem or consequence?

If we can answer this I hope we all realize this and our people in any part of the globe are problem-solvers or preparing as such.

Because that statement in bold need some thought.


Home-schooling is in the increase in the US and some of our people are embracing it.

http://www.post-trib.com/news/87599,homeschool.article

The more methods out there the better I say. It's too early to say what works but hopefully the attitudes of the next generation will say all.

Thanks for the feedback. Yes , you do have a point...one that we will all need to give some thought to, i'm sure!

Just to let you all know...I'm getting to work on providing more info for my brothers and sisters based in the US. I hope to have some more support networks listed real soon, which will be US specific. These will include homeschooling contacts etc

I hope that you guys are spreading the word about the site...we all have to do our bit to ensure that the next generation achieve great things, using education as a tool to propel themselves forward!!
Peace 'n' much luv!

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master,
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling

Incognito wrote:


Who'd if thunk it eh, that a man can write such beautiful poetry andmake exceedingly goodcakes as well..


What genius.

Peacemaker - if that goes anyway to proving you are what you eat then give me two dozen of his mince pies

Foundation talk never dies, but that assumes there is a capcity to ingest it else it was never alive.

More from the Rudyard

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

@Incognito...big poem. Love that poem from school...

Man we are showing our age. Kippling and John Dunne could drop some tunes eh?



And the cakes are good tooconfused3

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FredB - man it's nice when you know what you want to say to expresswhat you feelbut can't articulate itbutfind someone has already been thereand preserved it in inkniceone.gif