Utah school allowing parents to opt students out of Black History Month curriculum

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Utah school allowing parents to opt students out of Black History Month curriculum

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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?

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If they would just incorporate the true history of blacks into the nation’s overall history and not politicize it,

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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.'

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.

Sounds like a trap to identify kids and families

wpbtiger. I look forward to your posted by picture showing the floaties

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.

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Utah school allowing parents to opt students out of Black History Month curriculum

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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.

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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.

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I sincerely hope you are bringing your lawyer with you. record the conversation

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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.