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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's weird that you make your daughter present something on black history when it's not needed. So she just walks around asking teachers if she can present to get extra credit? Anyways, my child goes to a pgcps. They go all out for black history and it's annoying as fuck. [/quote]

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I'm not sure why you think it's not needed.  I didn't say anything in my original post to indicate that.  And no she doesn't "just walks around asking teachers if she can present to get extra credit? "  The first year she attended the school (2nd grade), I happened to ask her towards the end of February "Larla, is your class doing anything for BHM?" she said no.  After the end of the month, I asked if they ever did anything and she said no.  The second year (3rd grade), I asked in the beginning of the month if her class was doing anything, she said no.  I then told her to ask her teacher if they were doing anything.  She did and teacher said no.  I told her, if she wanted to,  this would be a great opportunity for her to be a leader and ask her teacher is she could do something for the class.  She did not ask for extra credit because she doesn't need it, as I said earlier, she is already a straight A student.  She thought about it and decided that she would like to do something.  So during social studies class did a presentation on African American scientists.  Teacher was impressed so was principal. She was then asked to make the presentation again for the entire 1st, 2nd, 3rd grade classes,  the principal and resource staff.  In the fourth grade, same scenario--teacher/class not doing anything. I told her again to volunteer to present something.  She did a presentation on Black Americans physicians doing great things (even included something on Ben Carson). In 2014, again same scenario.  My DD is a huge fan of Nelson Mandela.  Because he died the previous year, she asked to do a presentation on his life.  She said most of the kids in the class did not even know who he was, let alone that he died.

Last year her 6th grade teacher, just asked my DD flat out if she wanted to present something in January.  DD didn't want to, but felt a little pressed. So she did something on The Harlem Renaissance. Later she said she was starting to feel like the spokesperson for all things black at her school.  Hell, a couple of teachers asked her alone what "Hot Line Bling" was? and if she knew how to do "The Quan"?

Anyway, it is obvious to me that my DD doesn't want to be considered the all knowing black kid, so she already to me that she didn't want to present anything this year.  I think she would love it if the other kids would actually be interested themselves and inquire as to why the classes aren't doing anything.  I think that's what bothers her the most.  That the other kids don't even seem to know that BHM even exists.  Maybe the both of us are expecting to much from our community.
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Is she the only black student in the school?[/quote]

No she is not.  Without giving to much away --there are about 10 African students that clearly identify as African, about 10 African-American and maybe 25 that identify as bi-racial (black/white).  The school does have about fifty Hispanic/Latino children (I could be wrong about this) and maybe 25 Asian students who mostly have white parents.

I'm not expecting the school to put on a stage play of Raisin in Sun or make the students recite poems from Langston Hughes as I did when I was in school.  [b]But I am surprised that there seems to be no recognition at all. [/b] That's why I wanted to know what what other schools did that were not primarily AA. [/quote]

That does seem odd.  Wouldn't they want ALL their students to have an appreciation of diversity and history?[/quote]

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