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A longer school day and school on Saturday??? Anyone hear about this?
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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 310084" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: royalblue">Excellent point, Janet! My girls learned about the civil rights movement through me. I taught them Black History, slavery, abolitionism and those behind the movement, up to current times. When I was taking an African American Women Writers course, I saved all the books and they have read one or two; difficult child is reading one now. I recall calling the school to ask how they were incorporating Black History into Black History month one year when mine were in middle school. No one knew how to respond. I printed out a bunch of reference material, age appropriate for their age groups, and handed it to the principal of our school. She said thanks and that was that - nothing was ever taught. They watch the movie Roots in 7th grade and call that black history education. Puh-leez.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: royalblue">They also didn't teach anything about the women's rights movement either. So, I had to do that also. Not that I minded because it enabled me to teach them a lot more than the school would have (and I got to put my personal bend on it from a women's perspective). </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #4169e1">However, they did spend 6 WEEKS teaching them all about Chinese history - from the beginning of time! SIX WEEKS. The students even had to an extensive project and presentation, followed by "Chinese Night" at the school for the parents to attend. It was the exact same curriculum they had been using for 20 YEARS. That floored me. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 310084, member: 2211"] [SIZE=3][COLOR=royalblue]Excellent point, Janet! My girls learned about the civil rights movement through me. I taught them Black History, slavery, abolitionism and those behind the movement, up to current times. When I was taking an African American Women Writers course, I saved all the books and they have read one or two; difficult child is reading one now. I recall calling the school to ask how they were incorporating Black History into Black History month one year when mine were in middle school. No one knew how to respond. I printed out a bunch of reference material, age appropriate for their age groups, and handed it to the principal of our school. She said thanks and that was that - nothing was ever taught. They watch the movie Roots in 7th grade and call that black history education. Puh-leez.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=royalblue]They also didn't teach anything about the women's rights movement either. So, I had to do that also. Not that I minded because it enabled me to teach them a lot more than the school would have (and I got to put my personal bend on it from a women's perspective). [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#4169e1]However, they did spend 6 WEEKS teaching them all about Chinese history - from the beginning of time! SIX WEEKS. The students even had to an extensive project and presentation, followed by "Chinese Night" at the school for the parents to attend. It was the exact same curriculum they had been using for 20 YEARS. That floored me. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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