Schools should use Black History all of the time!

Black History Month is a time for everyone to celebrate black people and black history.  There is plenty of it, if you do the right research or learn from the right people.  However, there are many complaints that the teachings during February are very shallow.  I agree with this complaint.  Schools should be celebrating more in-depth during the month of February.  I find it very insulting and intentional to have a lack of celebrating.  Now our calendar has many times, people and holidays that we celebrate.  We are fortunate enough to be handed an entire month, by all means we did fight for it like we have and do everything else and not by choice.  We need to continue to push the limits and get better celebrations  in each and every school and more black history teaching throughout the year.  I will not be satisfied until even the areas with "all white" schools are celebrating as if they are the black culture teaching black history on a regular basis.  How about you?  

Now why is it that the majority of the teachings are about slaves?  As if there isn't anymore to the black people than slavery.  Granted slavery is a huge part of black history but teach and celebrate all of the successful black people too.  Success comes in many forms and for many reasons and they should too be blown to proportion.  I encourage my children to ask tell the teacher that they would like to present to their classrooms no matter the grade their in.  Present a person or group of people that are not normally studied in school.  My children and I gather the information and at least a printed picture.  We may even include some sort of word puzzle or something fun to engage each child to learn.  It is our duty as much as the school's to represent black history properly and to the fullest.  It should be the school's pleasure to do so.  Another problem is we only do this during Black History Month because that is the only time allowed to do such a thing.  Some teachers say "we do not have time for that with all of the teachings already."  "Well make time", is what I tell the teachers. 

So do you think it is a problem that all schools do not get the proper time for black history?  What can schools and teachers do to implement more black history throughout the school year?  We have approximately     14,129,983 million  black households as of 2010 out of the approximate 89,754,352 million white households.  As of 2010 there were 98,817 public schools and  33,366 private schools across America.  How many days of the school year do you think each one of these schools studied black history.  My answer is not enough!   Black people may still be a minority but just as important as the white race.  The textbooks should hold more information to feed the black community.  The importance of the black community having history and people to identify with and relate to, examples to look up to, a representation that is strong and of intelligence. Do you agree that there is a lack of black history 365 in the schools?  Do you think the schools curriculum and textbooks should contain a healthier amount of black history?