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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Actually, I think that its both teachers and students. Private schools can have a lot of religious diversity among the student body--and private school teachers are free to teach about religious traditions, celebrate them, and engage students about religious traditions.

Studies have shown (there's a section in Nurtureshock about this) that simple exposure to diversity is not enough to stop discrimination in young children. Children need adults to talk about it. I don't see why you keep insisting that merely having diversity is sufficient to raise children to be knowledgeable about diversity. It's not.[/quote]

I suspect you're correct here.  I was the beneficiary of fine teaching about American Indian history and slavery with texts and teachers in the 1950s and 1960s that were fallacious.  I had to re-educate myself with independent research and not your high priced fancy teachers.  That has made all the intellectual difference in truth and fact (as opposed to the spin from the prestigious schools I attended from K through graduate school).

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