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Black History Month
By Michael

There is a lot of good information out there on black history month. If you look up on kidhooligans you can find good information. It is important for the students to first learn why we have black history month and why
it falls in the month of February. It is important to know the background and that this month is more of a month for people to start a journey in understanding other cultures than it is just a month to celebrate. It is also important for them to understand how the civil rights movements actually played a key role into the rights of the disabled also. We all can benefit from the civil

right movement and we do. More emphasis is placed on everyone's civil rights. This is much more than a movement of African Americans but this is a movement of the human race. These role models such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks and Ghandi are all examples of people who stood up for something or some cause and would not back down because they felt they they were right and had a right. If you tie the lessons into our everyday life and psyche I believe the lessons could be very eye opening. You could even open the lesson up to international heros. These kind of lessons have infinate values and really open the children's minds. As for the parents well they won't hear how wonderful the lessons are so they will not benefit like their children will.............(the children are still somewhat moldable)