How about a different perspective on the permission requirement? My white daughter has a black daughter. She wants to see what her child is being taught before allowing her to take a black history course.

She wants her daughter to know the full history of blacks including slaves, northern blacks, Haitians (her daughter is half Haitian), and recent black immigrants (her husband prior to her divorce was a Nigerian immigrant by way of Italy). She does not want a narrow version of history centered on slavery and Jim Crow laws... absolutely those things need to be taught, but black history is far than that.

She is concerned some black history classes advocate separatism as an ideology on the basis that all whites are racist. Do you really think that is wrong?

If it makes you feel better, my daughter wants the same right to determine what her daughter learns in a sex education class. To many courses, are taught with an ideology that conflicts with that of parents. I will say, my daughter does not feel she needs to sign a slip for her daughter to take Algebra. I don't think the issue is as cut and dry as the link suggests.

Every group in America has its own experience. The challenge in education is teaching the reality of that experience while teaching that our societal goals should be to become 'one people". I grew up during MLK's time and his message of integrating society resonated with many in my generation as the "end game" vs separatism.