diversity article summary

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This article, published in Time Magazine 2 years ago, is an overview of the different methods school boards and administrators have used with the goal of creating more diverse schools (high school) . It starts by discussing the most recent try, with two school districts trying to get the O.K. to choose which school a student would attend based on their race, which was of course shot down. Other approaches in the past have been basing admission on socio-economic status (low-income, free/reduced lunch need, etc.), trying to advertise certain schools to certain types of students and families, letting parents choose, etc. Some of these methods have had good results, but no single way completely keeps a diverse environment in existence.
This article covers diversity in an educational aspect. The administrators WANT greater diversity in classrooms because they say students learn better in more diverse areas. The author is pretty non-biased; the article is probably also a subtle way to get parents to maybe make a better choice on where they send their kids to school. If many people read this article, I really think it would have some affect on parents and their choice of schools. I also think that if more intelligent high school students read this, they may understand a better meaning of why their classrooms are set up the way they are. This is important because it really addresses a big problem. This isn't as much of an issues in smaller cities as I'm sure it would be in a heavily populated area.
I think it's very important that students learn in a diverse problem, but it is EXTREMELY hard to decide if and how they should be divided. It would be unfair to say that they should be dispersed by race, but I have a feeling it would work. But, of course, this would be extremely bad, because students have the choice to go to the school of their choice, if they qualify. Overall, I just think this is a good article that opens some eyes to this issue that they maybe hadn't considered before.