Being at Sankofa Elementary School was interesting; we went there to learn about the development of the school and how it is similar to our Sankofa Freedom Academy. This Sankofa starts from babies and goes to the 6th grade. The purpose of this school is similar to the purpose of our school; they want their students to be ready to enter the real world. The owner told us how the school was originally only for pre- K, however, one the mothers liked the school so much that she wanted her child to stay in Sankofa Elementary School, so the owner allowed the little boy to stay and the rest is history; that’s how its became babies to 6th grade. They called that student “the first boy” and his mom the “first woman and his father the first man”. Sankofa Elementary School reminds me so much of our main school building because it’s colorful and has the principals of Kwanzaa on the walls. They also use the heart and the bird as there symbol before you enter the school. We road past Sankofa Elementary School so many times and didn’t even know it was there; just being in Sankofa in St. Thomas, Jamaica, made me feel at home. When I get back to Philadelphia, I’m going let my community know that there’s another Sankofa out there and that we not the only one.
-Janee
Robinson
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