Afri-Centric schools are a bad idea....

I've got to learn more about this curriculum....this is a bad idea and will only make matters worse...

The city's controversial Africentric school will open with twice the minimum number of students needed to justify its creation, a Toronto District School Board official said yesterday.

With 80 children signed up for Tuesday's opening, kindergarten and Grade 1 are full, said Lloyd McKell, executive officer for student and community equity.

"If more parents enrol their children in the next couple of months, we may have to double up on classes," he said.

Grades 6 to 8 could be added in future, McKell said.

Six classrooms in Sheppard Public School will accommodate 125 children, sharing the lunchroom, gym, computer lab and yard.

Courses in the latest of the board's 40 alternative schools are to be augmented with African heritage.

Specialty topics, themes and histories will be included with mandated requirements, including access to other board programs, McKell said.