An insider sheds somewhat gentle on Kanye West's mysterious Donda Academy, a personal Christian faculty in Simi Valley, California.
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Kanye West “is the hierarchy,” in line with a buddy who reportedly helped the rapper and designer discovered his mysterious personal faculty.
“We're taught that black males are incapable of being heads of [institutions] although now we have seen our white counterparts fail over and over,” Malik Yusef, a longtime buddy of West’s and a self-professed “administrator, administering data to younger, rising minds” of the Donda Academy, advised The Submit. “Kanye might fail. So what? Is he able to educating his kids? Sure.”
The varsity, a pre-Ok by twelfth grade Christian academy in Simi Valley, Calif., opened its doorways in 2021 (initially going from kindergarten by eighth grade) and named for the rapper’s mom, Donda West, who died in 2007 after beauty procedures and who was chair of Chicago State College’s English division.
West himself has proclaimed that the college’s lecturers might “really flip your youngsters into, like, geniuses.” However thus far he has stored a decent lid on Donda’s curriculum and the individuals who train it.
“Most [schools] train studying and math. However these issues by no means made the world higher. I’m not saying we don’t train arithmetic however that doesn't have bearing on how our world is structured,” Yusef added. “Folks have executed disagreeable issues to the world with their calculations. I don’t suppose they deal with [math] alone. I don’t suppose that makes for a great faculty.”
Poet and rapper Yusef claims to have been there from the beginning and defined to The Submit that Donda isn't spur of the second.
“We’ve been placing collectively the college eternally,” Yusef advised The Submit. “It began years in the past, earlier than the passing of Mother [Donda West]. It was [originally] not going to be referred to as Donda. However we got here up with the Donda-izing — it went by the Kanye vortex.”
As for the perceived secrecy across the faculty, Yusef defined, “There's a stage of exclusivity. Folks have to get out of the hype-beast blender the place [school officials] should reveal data. There are not any secrets and techniques right here. It feels mysterious as a result of folks don't have any egress.”
In response to Rolling Stone, households of scholars signal nondisclosure agreements that a faculty marketing consultant described to the publication as an “casual settlement.”
“Most individuals need to know what’s occurring for the sake of understanding,” mentioned Yusef. “However there are some issues which can be personal. Like Donda. Donda is personal.”
Right here’s what is understood: The scholar-to-teacher ratio is spectacular (in line with the college’s web site: 10:1). Annual tuition runs $15,000. There may be an elite basketball staff, the Donda Doves — rostered with elite gamers recruited from excessive faculties across the US and outfitted in Balenciaga uniforms and Yeezys, that completed final yr with 11 wins and 9 losses.
There are additionally visible arts, movie and Parkour lessons, in addition to a gospel choir that takes half in West’s Sunday Service performances.
Principal and government director Brianne Campbell’s earlier jobs, in line with her LinkedIn profile, embody choir director, music trainer and signing providers coordinator at a title firm. In response to Rolling Stone, she doesn't have expertise as a faculty principal.
Cambell didn't reply to requests for remark.
“I don’t know who the principal was on Monday morning. With out speaking to Ye, I don’t know who the principal is now,” Yusef mentioned. “Ye might have modified the principal … One contributor to the curriculum is Malik Yusef. I've no capability to share every other names. I don’t need to go on the file talking falsehoods.”
So who's in control of operating the personal academy, which has not but been accredited by the state of California?
“Kanye is the proprietor,” mentioned Yusef. “The choices made at Donda are made by Kanye.”
West’s personal kids with ex-wife Kim Kardashian — daughters North, 9, and Chicago, 4, and sons Saint, 6, and Psalm, 3 — don't attend the college, nonetheless, a lot to his dismay.
College days embody “full faculty worship; core lessons of language arts, math and science; lunch & recess” and the curriculum was designed to “promote ideation, prototyping, and real-world implementation” and assist college students “develop of their religion and neighborhood by each day all-school worship and celebration at Sunday Service,” in line with the Donda website online.
“I don’t know what time the college begins; I can’t communicate on chronology,” mentioned Yusef. “I believe they're studying in an setting designed for studying. Perhaps someone talks about fishing. Fishing is necessary as a result of we eat fish. Why can’t that be a part of the curriculum? What number of instances do it's essential to perceive George Washington in your life? You don’t have to say he is a superb man.”
Whereas Yusef doesn't ship his personal kids to Donda – he resides in Chicago, however he mentioned he would if he might – he maintained to The Submit that it offers a great setting overseen by Kanye West.
“There's a hierarchy. Ye is the hierarchy,” mentioned Yusef. “What he says goes. I belief him. We belief his data and his imaginative and prescient. For nearly 20 years I’ve trusted this man to be the chief… He has not failed me. I belief him to work with youth. I belief him to be the great shepherd. Regardless of the curriculum is, I do know that the kids come out wholesome.”
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