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Utah school allowing parents to opt students out of Black History Month curriculum
Posted on 2/7/21 at 11:29 am
Posted on 2/7/21 at 11:29 am
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A Utah charter school that incorporates Black History Month into its lesson plans is now facing backlash from some after the school announced it was allowing parents to opt students out of the curriculum.
Maria Montessori Academy Director Micah Hirokawa announced the decision in a Friday post on the school's private Facebook page, according to local news outlet the Standard-Examiner.
Hirokawa wrote that he "reluctantly" sent a letter to families stating that administrators were allowing them "to exercise their civil rights to not participate in Black History Month at the school."
Hirokawa said in the post that "a few families" had asked not to participate in the curriculum, though he declined to tell the Standard-Examiner the exact number of parents who had contacted the school or the reasons they gave for making the request.
Posted on 2/7/21 at 11:33 am to WPBTiger
If they would just incorporate the true history of blacks into the nation’s overall history and not politicize it, people would likely be ok with it.
Posted on 2/7/21 at 11:41 am to WPBTiger
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Utah school allowing parents to opt students out of Black History Month curriculum
We've been doing BHM since 1976. The goal may have been laudable at the time...to actually make a point of incorporating potential historical contributions that were left out of the history books made by black Americans, etc. Makes sense to me. I'm fully in favor of history being taught taught as accurately as possible.
But we started this in 1976...the Bicentennial year. The same year Rocky came out. The #1 song of the year was Silly Love Song by Paul McCartney & Wings. Presumably we've had enough time BY NOW to fully incorporate anything left out into the same history we teach the rest of the year, right?
So...if we've done that by now, then why are we STILL having an entire month for this separately? Why are black people STILL expected to have tons of separate things like this that may have had good intentions at first, to give representation where there had been none, after decades of fixing the very problems that caused the need for these "separate" things in the first place?
Posted on 2/7/21 at 11:42 am to WPBTiger
Not so fast:
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Hirokawa sent another email to parents Saturday afternoon apologizing for the option to opt out and has rescinded that offer. The email states that "at this time no families are opting out of our planned activities and we have removed this option."
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Posted on 2/7/21 at 11:48 am to NineLineBind
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If they would just incorporate the true history of blacks into the nation’s overall history and not politicize it,
Have any of you people seen a modern US history book for HS students? I flipped through one last year. There was the usual stuff about the Tuskegee airmen and the guy who invented the stop sign (although he copied it from the British). But the amazing thing was the quota they set for women.
Holy hell, I never heard of half of these women and when I checked their bio I realized why. They didn't do shite.
'Lucy McNulty invented the potholder glove that has an attachment for a dish rag.'
Posted on 2/7/21 at 11:51 am to NineLineBind
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If they would just incorporate the true history of blacks into the nation’s overall history and not politicize it, people would likely be ok with it.
I’m in the East Tennessee mountains. There was 1 “plantation” in the area on the Tennessee river that had double digit slaves. They were porters or skilled workers (coopers, brick masons, etc). The local tv stations have already run the fact that 20ish slaves were in this area into the ground. Shame of Appalachia, a documentary on buildings built by former slaves, “plantation live in the mountains”.
My county and the next one over are greater than 96% white. Subsistence farmers hired Indians or helped each other on projects. A slave would have just been another mouth to feed on the mountains so it just didn’t make sense.
Posted on 2/7/21 at 12:10 pm to Zach
True story: During Black History Month one year, a guy that worked with me, asked me " Have you ever heard of Dr. Charles Drew?" I told him, "that's the doctor that invented the process of separating plasma from blood to make it more storable and useable. He was a Black guy." First, he was shocked that I knew that bit of trivia, then he wanted to know how I had known that? I told him that I had learned about that in 5th or 6th grade, that would have been around 1970. He called me every kind of liar, and said that schools didn't teach things like that about Black people. I just told him that he must not have been a very good student. He refused to believe that I had learned that in school.
This post was edited on 2/7/21 at 12:33 pm
Posted on 2/7/21 at 12:11 pm to WPBTiger
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You are going to relegate my history to one month?
Which month is white history month?
-Morgan Freeman
Posted on 2/7/21 at 12:31 pm to WPBTiger
Sounds like a trap to identify kids and families
Posted on 2/7/21 at 12:32 pm to HailToTheChiz
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Sounds like a trap to identify kids and families
Yeah I would have to let my kids attend and then have my own private after school deprogramming lessons.
Posted on 2/7/21 at 1:35 pm to GeauxTigerTM
Why would anyone deserve a full month of remembrance/history other than our veterans?
Posted on 2/7/21 at 1:37 pm to WPBTiger
wpbtiger. I look forward to your posted by picture showing the floaties
Posted on 2/7/21 at 1:45 pm to HailToTheChiz
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Sounds like a trap to identify kids and families ?
Seems like the list would be long in Utah though.
Posted on 2/7/21 at 2:34 pm to WPBTiger
I live in the Midlands in South Carolina. The largest slave owner, for our area, was from Sumter SC named William " April" Ellison Jr. and he was a black man.
Funny how they don't teach that in public school. I bet they don't teach the fact that New Orleans had over 2000 blacks that owned slaves in 1860 either.
Funny how they don't teach that in public school. I bet they don't teach the fact that New Orleans had over 2000 blacks that owned slaves in 1860 either.
This post was edited on 2/7/21 at 2:37 pm
Posted on 2/7/21 at 2:34 pm to TrueTiger
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Yeah I would have to let my kids attend and then have my own private after school deprogramming lessons.
I'd have pulled my kids out.
Oh, that's right. I already did. We homeschool. Precisely because of bullshite like this.
Posted on 2/7/21 at 2:54 pm to WPBTiger
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Utah school allowing parents to opt students out of Black History Month curriculum
Posted on 2/7/21 at 3:14 pm to WPBTiger
Reason number 2 to love the Mormon way or life. The choir now in a distant 3rd.
Posted on 2/7/21 at 3:20 pm to NineLineBind
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If they would just incorporate the true history of blacks into the nation’s overall history and not politicize it, people would likely be ok with it.
Exactly...I’m making a trip tomorrow to speak with the principal at my daughter’s school. So far this black teacher of hers, amongst other things, has called Trump supporters idiots and morons, praised Joe Biden and other Dems to the hilt, preached the virtues of liberalism, let black kids eat lunches and get seconds in some cases before the white kids, then the tipping point was her playing a movie the other day of a girl desegregating a school circa 1960 Louisiana where the whites used the n word, bullied the girl, and were portrayed as evil villains. Matter of fact she blurted out before one scene...”you white crackers better not be mean to blacks”. I’m going to have a good tongue lashing experience tomorrow! That kind of over the top nonsense has NO place when teaching 5th graders or any students for that matter.
Posted on 2/7/21 at 3:27 pm to Crimson1st
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has called Trump supporters idiots and morons, praised Joe Biden and other Dems to the hilt, preached the virtues of liberalism, let black kids eat lunches and get seconds in some cases before the white kids, t
I sincerely hope you are bringing your lawyer with you. record the conversation
Posted on 2/7/21 at 4:10 pm to ksayetiger
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I sincerely hope you are bringing your lawyer with you. record the conversation
Well, I have a good rapport with her principal. That’s not a bad suggestion, however, I was going to try this way before I resorted to that way first and see if I get any results. My understanding is there have been complaints filed already, hopefully mine will push it over the edge, and the students won’t be the only ones learning lessons from this.
This post was edited on 2/7/21 at 4:11 pm
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