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comment by ButterflyEffect
ButterflyEffect  ·  4316 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Black history month has been a failure

Short isn't necessarily a bad thing. Why do we need a month to teach about those topics though? Those are important people and events that should be included in secondary school curriculum's. Is it then an educational issue that we're looking at? I feel that it should be interspersed throughout the year, Black history is an important part of American history and should be coupled with that, not relegated to a month.





user-inactivated  ·  4316 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Is it then an educational issue that we're looking at?

Yeah. But there are a lot more important problems in American education than whether 17-year-olds have heard of Langston Hughes.