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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People are making too much a deal on the so-called "diversity". Diversity is a result, not a goal. As long as a school does not have any policy or practice that directly favors a certain (ethnic/income level etc.) group, I do not see a problem even if the end result is a "non-diverse" school. 
 
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Different people have different opinions and place priorities on different things.  Some people do see some problems when a school is not diverse enough.   There are some schools that don't have any diversity - as a result or as a goal.[/quote]

[b]I see no problem for parents wanting to choose a school with more or less diversity[/b]. However, trying to make a school more or less diverse, is not the same thing. [/quote]

Depends on the diversity, and the reason, eh?[/quote]

Doesn't matter at all. That is purely personal choice. I do not need to know why other people make those personal choices, even if their reasons were evil.

Trying to shape a school, is not a personal choice, and that matters. My opinion on that is, do NOT deliberately make schools more or less diverse, and do not use "diversity" as a criteria to judge schools.
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But when all the minority majority schools consistently score at the bottom of just about every objective criteria, where do we go from there?  Why does inclusion always correspond to a lowering of standards? Until that is truly addressed it is neaive to not expect pushback no matter the fervor of the kumbaya mandate. While easy to label it racism, one might find some benefit to taking a step back and analyzing the dominant party’s struggle to propagate that privilege/dominance. At the very least learning more about the actual mechanics could both assist with emulation and elimination.[/quote]

What the hell does this mean? [/quote]

DP. It means that it's the poor people's responsibility to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps by being more like rich people. I think. That's what the "Something something kumbaya something something" post usually mean.[/quote]

How does a society chose who gets on the lifeboats when there are more people than spots. You exspect rich people to jeopardize their children’s spot for other people kids? Tell you what, let me know how that works out for you. People get well off specifically to provide their children with “advantages”. Advantage means a leg up on someone else, that someone else has only a few options;
1:run faster to make up the ground
2:run the race and complain about how it wasn’t fair and ask for a medal anyway
3:stand there in and complain while everyone else is running

If you change the goal line to help the kids with less, I assure you the rich will change the game.[/quote]

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