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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was an UMC kid who went to a diverse school. I think the quality of education was worse. It did make me understand other cultures.  While I am not biased, the experience made me a strong Republican and made me work harder/smarter to send my kids to a W school. Many friends from HS echo that experience. [/quote]

This is similar to my experience. I also went to a diverse but low performing school and it was not ideal. I also worked very very hard and it also made me a strong republican. I think I would have very different political views if it wasn't for the way I grew up. My sisters are older and went to different schools before we moved and they are very different than I am in terms of their school choices and political lean. I am certain it is due to the different environments in which we grew up. My husband and I work very hard to send our kids to an excellent school. It is not diverse. But my concern was only on SES and overall school performance. If that also included it being diverse that would have been a plus but it is rare. But I don't care. I want them to have a better experience than I did and I don't think it will negatively effect the way they interact with other people of different color/SES/religion etc...in fact I think it might be a positive. When you are in school with children who constantly act out because they have no parental support, no focus on education, not enough food etc...I don't believe that is positive. For me, it was a negative and I had to work really hard as a child, young person and adult to reshape my bias.

It is so easy to say how diversity is so important blah blah blah when you haven't actually grown up with any. [/quote]

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