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I wouldn't argue that they had specific numbers in mind. But as long as the lived experience of different racial groups in America remains as disparate as it is, it's already been established that there is educational value in having students from different backgrounds in the classroom, and yes, that includes race.[/quote]

Why would skin color really matter, though?  Are you suggesting that an upper middle class kid with educated parents who has a grandparent from Spain, and thus is Hispanic, provides any real diversity over an upper middle class white kid?  Are you suggesting that a South Asian child of a parent on a STEM based work visa, a child of Vietnamese refugees who moved to America in the late 1970s, and a Chinese kid internationally adopted by a white family all can be lumped in the Asian category and thus provide no diversity relative to each other?

Rather than checking a box on race, wouldn't it be better to have the kid answer an essay about whatever unique perspective they would bring the school? [/quote]

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