Toronto vice-principal Gary Pieters is president of the Urban Alliance on Race Relations and also headed an Africentric summer program in Jane-Finch in 2005 — the so-called Year of the Gun — in which he saw students raise their academic skills by a whole level just by being engaged with Africentric lessons.
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