Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Why No White History Month? It is the month of February again, and I am very excited about the Black History month. As a young African American elementary school teacher, I make sure that I fully take advantage of the Black History month in my lessons with my 5th graders. Yesterday, we were talking about important African American political figures, who made life better for all Americans. During this lesson, one of my students raised her hand and asked why there was no "White History month?" "Were White Americans not as important?" I did not have a good answer to her question. I must be doing something wrong to have a student feel this way. How would you answer this question? Do you think it is problematic to integrate African Americans to all my lessons during February? How can I fix this? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I do not think that we should focus so much on historical figures of a particular race one at a time. I think that this concept promotes separation of races. Therefore, I think that you should integrate historical figures of all races. Also, do you have an entire month devoted to teaching about important Hispanic American figures? What about Asian American? Native American? Our country is not just black or white, and we should be giving our students an education of all of the important people that have shaped the country and the world that they live in, not just those that are white or black.