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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The premise of this thread- that there should be no attempt to achieve some degree of ethnic/racial diversity- is so blatantly racist.  I’m disheartened by how many pages and posts there are here.[/quote]

That’s fine except that every person has a different view of diversity. In my kids school about a third of students are African American and less than 1 percent is Hispanic and it is considered diverse. Given the subjectivity and arbitrariness of diversity I think it is better that admissions are race free. That by no means its racist. Think about public schools. Race is not considered a factor in admissions and by no means is racist. The only requirement is to live near the public school.[/quote]

OK, Stephen Miller, let me help you out here.  If the private school could fill itself with 400 kids from full pay families, and 95% of those kids are white, but instead they choose to give financial aid to 80 students, and the majority of those kids are non-white from a variety of different ethnic and racial backgrounds, that may not achieve perfect diversity, but that’s what it means to value diversity and make a worthwhile effort at it.  I’m not sure what you’re doing here today. Don’t you have a hard-working Mexican farm worker to deport? 
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