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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yawn I'm pretty much done here.  In real life deciding between a school with higher test scores and by extension higher SES and by extension larger amounts of whites and asians vs one with lower test scores and by extension lower SES and by extension larger amounts of African Americans and Hispanics the choice is obvious.[/quote]

Isn't diversity worth the consideration even though the test score might be a little lower? [/quote]

I think you hit the nail on the head.  Some of us see value in diversity and some of us don't.  Personally I haven't seen any value in diversity for higher SES kids.  The lower SES kids obviously benefit from having higher SES kids in the class room.  Higher SES kids are ignored/not challenged when they are in more diverse classrooms.  This can be fixed if you have tracking but then you need to ensure that the teacher can actually do tracking and there is enough of a cohort to proceed at an advanced level.

Bottom line again liberals often go on and on about diversity without showing evidence that it benefits higher SES folks.  Personally I think there is no benefit especially from an academic perspective[/quote]

If all you are looking for is to ensure that your child can achieve high test scores, then yes, diversity has no play. But some parents do see tangible benefits to diversity. I went to a diverse high school here in MOCO, back in the 90s. My best friends were all over the rainbow (African American, Pakistani, White, Hispanic, etc.).  All of us are actually really doing well in life including in our careers. One of the things however that I find myself being able to do, more successfully than my colleagues who went to schools that were close to all white, is my ability to get along and relate to people from diverse backgrounds. I want my kids to have the same experience. Seriously, for as diverse this area is, it's laughable to see white people who don't know how to be friends with others who don't look like them. You can feel their discomfort when they're around others who are not like them. I don't want that for my kids and I do believe that success in life isn't solely about academic performance. [/quote]

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