Women’s History {Month}

March is Women’s History month, a recognition that should be appreciated every month, every year, in everybody’s life!

Women’s history is crucial to our nation, our society, and our world. To think that there was a time where women were owned by men, just as the slaves were, and now they live free and strong, just as African-Americans do, is simply breathtaking. During the month of March, it is appropriate to discuss the consideration of starting a Women’s history course at Dakota High school. This is a relevant, a necessary class for our student body.

Women have struggled through discriminatory laws and both abusive social and emotional relationships, treated equal to the lowest of society in their time. A  class that acknowledges the movement of women throughout history (including Susan B. Anthony with women’s suffrage in the 1820s, all the way to the transgender women’s equal rights fight throughout the 2010s) can hold nothing but greatness. This class has the potential to educate girls and boys on the fight for equality of the sexes. A Women’s history class would be the most inclusive course at the school: touching on the theory of feminism (belief that men and women should be equal), the suffrage movement for women and blacks, the ideals of men and women conformity throughout history, and the examples of men and women who changed the world in their push for equality. Older generations are not the only ones who were forced to fight for equality. This is a course that will support students on their mission to understanding and equality. It will encourage students to reach out, speak up, for all races, ages, religious affiliations, sexual orientations, and gender identification of men and women.

It is disgraceful that we do not have a class that works only to support all students and educate them about what ordinary people, just like them, did decades ago to change the world. Our students deserve that encouragement. We deserve that recognition and that support. Equality movements are an extremely important aspect of societies past and presence that involves women, as well as many 0ther minority groups that the Women’s history class would reflect on.

Give us a Women’s history class, so that the fights for equality do not stay history, but rather push through to our generation and beyond!