The Demand Black Community Control of Education

Education system functions to train workers vocational skills necessary to play their designated role in a capitalist or in a socialist economy. In both economies skills and skilled workers are needed.

2. Education system also functions to reproduce ideology of a society. Im the capitalist society we are taught to revere capitalist principles. In socialist society the schools teach us socialist principles.

For an african existing under capitalism, to be taught capitalist principles is to be taught self destructive, individualistic and self serving principles. These are all of the characteristics of capitalism.

More than that, the capitalist system does not work for the masses of African individuals.

Capitalism requires high rent, low wages and other things conducive to profit.

Consequently Prison or low wage jobs are the designated role for oppressed people. And this is evident in the colonial public education program from first grade.

We are forced to spend 12 plus years in class rooms attending classes that do not teach us how to organize a better system that functions without profit as it's driving motive.

Such a transformation would require the curriculum to criticize the u.s. government and capitalism, as well as offer up a concrete material program that facilitates the transfer of power over economic, political and social policy in the hands of the workers.

The road to socialism is truly painted black and to talk about power to the workers is to talk about the destruction of the colonial state that depends colonial borders and enforces colonial laws.

Simply put under the control of the people, organized under the advanced detachment(s) of the African working class, the school system must do the following:

1. Implementation of mandatory anti-colonial curriculum policy that, in a in a non opportunist fashion, correctly sums up history and how it has been taught

2. Full employment for all high school 11 and 12 graders

3. Paid internship positions for all high school students at all work sites paid for by the city. (Construction, road repair, etc)

4. Establish 12 year plan for all students starting at 1st grade where they are put in a process that will result in their mastery of a particular trade by the time they graduate from high school.

5. Free 24/7 childcare/learning services for all children of Philadelphia residents.

6. Staff and training for peoples produce program of the people in grocery store, the 40,000 empty lots in the city to be transformed into gardens used to grow the produce that is sold