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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]

Yes, my kids in MCPS so far have mostly gotten Ruby Bridges, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King Jr -- with Rosa Parks being a nice lady who just wanted to rest her feet, and Martin Luther King Jr. being the guy who gave the "I have a dream" speech. Anything is better than nothing, I guess, but when they come home and say "Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. were boring," something is wrong.[/quote]

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