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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do people have against racial/cultural/SES diversity? [/quote]

Obviously something.  Wish I knew what it was.  Fear, I guess.[/quote]

It's not having something against diversity, it's being concerned about the consequences that come with it.  I'm a minority and my kids attend a school with much racial, cultural and SES diversity.  I like that, but I don't like the fact that the academic standards at the school are lower than those schools with less SES diversity--I know this because my kids have attended another school with fewer lower SES kids.  As a PP mentioned, I don't think the standards are lower on paper, but when kids come in knowing so little, the starting point for the class is where the critical mass is. I've debated moving my kids to a school with less SES diversity because they are not challenged.  I've instead decided to supplement at home in order to keep the racial and cultural diversity.  Once they get to high school, that might change and I might decide to move because I'll have to start making sure they are on par with the kids from other schools that they'll be in classes with in college.  You can call that having a problem with diversity, but I call it making sure my kids are getting the foundation they need.  I'm not racist and I don't care if my kids are friends with kids from a different SES as mine, their friends just need to be well behaved.  [/quote]

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