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Offline AB.Trini

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England’s Smartest Family is Black
« on: June 17, 2010, 06:29:12 PM »
Nuff people go turn over in dey grave reading this.


England’s Smartest Family is Black

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  Meet the "First Family of Education" in England. They are black.

 
Check out this family.  They are remarkable
 
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/school_league_tables/article7044675.ece



Peter and Paula Imafidon, 9-year-old twins from Waltham Forest in northeast London, are a part of the highest-achieving clan in the history of Great Britain education. The two youngest siblings are about to make British history as the youngest students to ever enter high school. They astounded veteran experts of academia when they became the youngest to ever pass the University of Cambridge’s advanced mathematics exam. That's on top of the fact they have set world records when they passed the A/AS-level math papers.

 


Chris Imafidon, their father, said he’s not concerned about his youngest children’s ability to adapt to secondary school despite their tender age. “We’re delighted with the progress they have made,” he said. “Because they are twins they are always able to help and support each other.”
To Peter and Paula’s parents, this is nothing new. Chris Imafidon said he and his wife have been through this before: they have other super-gifted, overachieving children.

 


Peter and Paula's sister, Anne-Marie, now 20, holds the world record as the youngest girl to pass the A-level computing, when she was just 13. She is now studying at arguably the most renowned medical school in the United States, Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore.
Another sister, Christina, 17, is the youngest student to ever get accepted and study at an undergraduate institution at any British university at the tender age of 11.

 


And Samantha, now age 12, had passed two rigorous high school-level mathematics and statistics exams at the age of 6, something that her twin siblings, Peter and Paula, also did.

 


Chris Imafidon migrated to London from Nigeria in West Africa over 30 years ago. And despite his children’s jaw-dropping, history-making academic achievements, he denies there is some “genius gene” in his family. Instead, he credits his children’s success to the Excellence in Education program for disadvantaged inner-city children.

 


"Every child is a genius," he told British reporters. "Once you identify the talent of a child and put them in the environment that will nurture that talent, then the sky is the limit. Look at Tiger Woods or the Williams sisters [Venus and Serena] — they were nurtured. You can never rule anything out with them. The competition between the two of them makes them excel in anything they do."
 
 
 

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Re: England’s Smartest Family is Black
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2010, 05:05:43 AM »
The british black poeple who are of african decent in the UK are generally achieving more than the british black who are of afro caribbean decent. They are very hard working and I think set the example to rest of the black population who are underachieving. Well done to them and show the rest of the world that black poeple are NOT stupid.

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Re: England’s Smartest Family is Black
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2010, 06:45:25 AM »
if dem waqs so smart dey woulda be living in de USA..not cold ass England. ;)

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Re: England’s Smartest Family is Black
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2010, 12:05:15 PM »
The british black poeple who are of african decent in the UK are generally achieving more than the british black who are of afro caribbean decent. They are very hard working and I think set the example to rest of the black population who are underachieving. Well done to them and show the rest of the world that black poeple are NOT stupid.
hmmmm I have always found  that the black people of caribbean descent were actually achieving more than the ones who come from african backgrounds...I have gone to school in England and I find the people from the caribbean tend to be  much more smarter and outgoing while the africans tend to promote a bling culture mentality... Just my view

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Re: England’s Smartest Family is Black
« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2010, 07:03:59 AM »
This story is indeed remarkable in that it shows that there is truly no limit to what the human mind can achieve, once it is endowed with sufficient talent. That the family happens to be of African descent is of no consequence to me, because there are gifted children of races and ethnicities in the world.

I am glad that the family did not succumb to the mentality that holds that blacks are inherently inferior cognitively.

 

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