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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does the school celebrate women history month or American Indian history month or is it just not celebrating black history month?

I wouldn't be upset if they don't celebrate any other races/months, but would be if they just chose not to celebrate black history month.[/quote]

I don't know if they celebrate women's history month.  They actually do celebrate American Indian history month in November in conjunction with Columbus day.

Listen I get where you are going with this comment, but I think my question is still valid.  African Americans in general are vilified on the news, in the media, in the political system, court system and such on a daily basis.  My DD says all friends seem to be surprised to some extent at the information she provides when she does presentations during Black History month.  [i]All they seem to know about AA is MLK, Rosa Parks, and maybe some of the black players on the Redskins/Wizards teams.  [/i][u][b] American Indians, women, Jewish-Americans, Asian American and Latinos are not portrayed the same way AA are(or at least not in the same way).  I would hope that non-AA parents would want to their children to know that AA are smart, can invent things, and have been an integral part of building this country that has nothing to do with slavery, MLK, or playing in the NBA.  My daughter says that most of friends and their parents appear to afraid of black people in general.

So again, I'm just asking about BLACK HISTORY MONTH.  If others are concerned about "women history month or American Indian history month" they can ask the question as well.  [/quote]

I went to a mostly white school and my kids are now in a mostly white school.  Both schools did celebrate black history month - I remember doing book reports, school wide assemblies, etc.  But... those things all really boiled down to the "headliners" like Rosa Parks and MLK. (with a little bit of George Washington Carver thrown in)  I could probably recite I have a dream word-for-word, but we never moved beyond that.  
So if you do approach the school in the hopes that they do something, I'd be very specific and very willing to help, otherwise I'd expect more of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr.   (And just because this is dcum and people will jump on the oddest things - of course I think children should learn about Rosa Parks and MLK, but as the OP suggested, not JUST about them.)[/quote]

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