Why do we only teach our children about great black leaders in february? Why not all year long?
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Because we are narrow-minded hypocrites.
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I have always tried to teach my children to finish what they start. Whether it was a good decision or bad, they must finish it out completely. Can't quit just because they don't like what it is about once they got started.\n\nSame deal here. We need to finish what we started. Good or bad, doesn't matter.
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This month is reserved in order to educate all people about balck history.  It is also to honor those black americans who paved the way for equality, inventions, and so forth in history.
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Cuz the teachers are boring! But I agree with Holly T that history is fascinating to learn cuz it will show you the fact of life. Why things happened this way and that way. Further more history does make and shape recent the world.
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Excellent question and I think the answer is that they are teaching their children what they were taught.\n\nWe have to break this vicious cycle. I was raised in a far right religious home where being prejudice was the norm. Sad, but true. It took me years to break that from my mind and sometimes I still struggle with it.
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OK, I'll give this a stab. Once upon a time, I taught upper elementary school in a inner city that is now far, far away. A report on NPR's marketplace inspired me to put together a unit on toys. \n\nI began by reading the short story "The Lesson" by Tony Cade Bambara aloud to the students. In the story, a "nappy-headed woman" with too much education and no makeup takes a group of kids from Harlem to the toy store FAO Schwartz in Manhattan. By doing this, she shows them that there's a world outside their Harlem neighborhood, and in this world, they don't have much power or money. The narrator--one of the Harlem kids--is angry, really angry at the woman who taught her this lesson.\n\n"You know," said one of my former students about a year later, "We hated you just like those kids in the story hated that woman."\n\n"I know," I said. By then I had learned that if you tell kids they are any kind of disadvantaged, even if you do so by telling them you grew up disadvantaged, too, they will hate you for it. \n\nBut I wasn't done with the unit. I had discussion questions for them to write about, and one of them was "Who are the people who buy the toys at FAO Schwartz?" The kids' answers were mostly some variation of "rich people".\n\nNext up, I had them go home and look at the "Made in" tags on three of their own toys, or those of a sibling, neighbor, or cousin if they were "too old" for toys. Actually, this was also a way out for kids who couldn't afford to own three toys.\n\nThe next day we compiled the results of our survey. I did that because I had two different figures for the percentage of toys made in China, and I wanted them to participate in gathering our own data: primary research. Some of the kids had obviously not done their research, but I included their made up answers (like "Made in Africa") anyway. Our results showed a percentage in between the two percentages I had from my research. In all three cases, we had figures that showed more than half the toys sampled were made in China.\n\nNext, I prepared them for an article I'd adapted from the newspaper by bringing in maps and coffee table books about China. I showed them, for example, terraces on the sides of mountains and a photograph of people in western Sichuan province with 100 pound tubs of manure on their backs, preparing to hike five miles into the mountains to lay manure on their fields.\n\nAt this point, I always asked the small group I was showing this particular photograph a question. Given a choice, would they rather come to school, read some stories, do some science, work some math problems, have recess, lunch, and maybe computer class, or would they rather hike five miles into the mountains with a hundred-pound tub of manure on their backs?\n\nWell, most of them would rather come to school. But there was always one or two who would say, "Give me the tub of manure."  These are your "kinesthetic learners", the kids who learn best by moving. In one case the kid was also a student with a high naturalistic intelligence (who happened to be born into a family with no interest in nature) and a truancy problem. I often think of that kid, and how happy he would be if he lived where I live now. \n\nAs a general rule, kinesthetic learners are more likely to be put in special ed, to drop out of school, and to end up in jail. They are the group of students that we as educators fail the most. And by fail, I mean we don't do right by them.\n\nAnyway, in the next part of the lesson, my students were to read an article I'd adapted from The Washington Post. The article told the story of a teenager who had travelled from western Sichuan province to the Special Economic Zone of Shenzhen, outside Hong Kong. \n\nIt explained how she'd gotten a job in a toy factory as a sort of human conveyor belt, moving partially manuf
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I think others may have taken a different inference from your question as if you asked "SHOULD we have black history month?" and that's not what you asked.\n\nI'm a caucasian american and I guess it's always felt funny to me that there was a need for a black history month. Why wasn't Black history included with the rest of world history? I mean now that the seperation of the races had become an antiquated notion, though still regionally practiced, couldn't we have more flushed out history books, one's that dealt with the developing history of all races?\n\nOkay well that hasn't happened, except more recent history does include more people of color. And therefore to cover the history that hasn't been covered, they add this special month of learning about things we may not learn at home or in another course at school. I for one am glad for the experience.\n\nI really couldn't say how it makes anyone else feel.\n\nThough I will say in a strange way sometimes it seems to emphasize the continued seperation between the races. We are all one humanity and the seperation is really idiotic, still it lingers. Is part of the problem that making a point of being proud of your skin color (no matter which group is doing it), tends to highlight the superficial differences between us.\nI think it would be better if the focus was on cultural history instead of skin color history.
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They are not taught at home that being a strong education black man is more cool. It all starts at home, no training.
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our teachers has big function to us.they mold us,they impart knowledge to us so that we become a good citizens of our country.my fellow graduates this is not the end but this is just the beginning to make a better life in the future. learning the basic education is the only way that we can help  our country.all of us know what is happening to our congress.if you still remember the saying "the youth is the hope of the fatherland".
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Actually there are plenty of white history months: Italian American Heritage Month, Irish American Heritage Month, German American Heritage month... you get the drift. The reason it's called "Black History Month" is because black people have been so far removed from their ancestory in Africa that most don't know what region they're from. If they knew, then you would see Ghanaian History Month, Nigerian History Month, etc. But since they most don't know, it's easier to lump it all together in one month. But whites have just as many months to honor their heritage as blacks do. Whites are just lucky enough to know about their specific heritage to be able to honor each one specifically. And if they want to promote it as much as Black history month, then those people need to get off their azzes and do it instead of whining. Blacks made their month a big deal through self-promotion. let the Italians, Irish, Germans, Swedish, etc. do the same thing.\n\n--\n\n\nBTW... I'm guessing this "Shameeka" isn't a real black female (the name is so corny and stereotypical). More likely it's some wise-azz guy trying to start shyt. And he's apparently succeeded...
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yes ... I think that it is becoming more widely known, but I also think that schools could do a lot more to promote it ... just think that they have a whole month to educate our kids about Black history which is our nation's history!
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I am not close to being an expert, but let me just say this. I am 35 and I am a single mother of three kids. I have a fifteen year old, a six year and a four year old. So I have only two of them in school right now.\n\nMy 15 year old son is on honor roll and my six year old daughter just received high honors. \n\nI am not bregging but only trying to paint a picture. I do not force any kind of studying habits. I think my success has been mostly more about how I raise and communicate with them.\n\nGrowing up I have never talked baby talk with any of them and they all talked exceptionally well when they were little. So well to the point people would always ask how does you little girl or boy talk so well, they are using sentences and they are so tiny.\n\nMy son has told me that the reason everything comes so easy to him is because half of the things he studys in school are things that I have included in everyday conversation with him so he already knows about it and it gives him the opportunity to participate in conversation in class and it makes him strive more when he knows about it and the teacher is impressed.\n\nIf my kids have a question while watching tv I answer it and bring up other things in relation. If they don't want to watch the news I don't have a problem with that, I watch and telll them later about all the things that are going on.\n\nMy son told me at school for his graduation they played a movie they made of all the major news and events that happened in the past decade and when they showed things like Tim Mcvey, Jon Bonet or even the last space shuttle that blew up and he said that after the movie his friends were saying they didn't even know who or what half the things in the video were.\n\nMy son's comment was "Don't these kids parents talk to them?"
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well the things we teach our kids these days are. if you dont like it. sue them. we teach them how NOT to be reponsible for our own selves. but what we are is always someone elses fault. we teach them there are no consequences to our actions. with money you can buy your way out of any situation. and the parents that all this applies to. will never see themselves in this . so on we go on our downward spiral to teaching our kids how to be nothing. .. and these are the people who wil some day be our leaders. nice huh?? well of course our leaders arent much. Clinton was one perfect example.. CEOs of major companies set fine examples by not being honest. and driving the companies down the tubes. Enron comes to mind. its all about lack of integrity. to do what is right no matter if someone is watching or not.
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My church did the play "A Lesson Before Dying".This was also televised on tv.You could also pick black historians who made a difference in society.eg;Madame C.J. Walker,George Washington Caver,Eli Whitney,and Garrette A. Morgan.Read up on the accomplishments that they succeeded in life.Go to a school teacher supply store and you'll find alot of informations to help you.The public library is another source of information.
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I am black and grew up with a lot of white friends, and let's just say that the parenting techniques are different. I grew up with "that look" (lol!), and I did indeed see my white friends walk all over their parents. It was as if their parents were afraid that the kids would hate them if they were disciplined.
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February! there are less days in February. ha ha ha
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.As a black person i fell that we  must teach our children the sevenpence of this ugly word, that means the history and how it was used to demoralize us and how some of us died to eradicate this word in  association with our Race. It also has to do with self hater. we must at all cost  educate to never except this in our ever day conversation. I can't say the word either but my parents instill the important of it.  we come from the greatest civilizations.  Lets wrap ourselves in it we mustn't forget those that died for the right to definite ourselves. Great subject thanks for asking.