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Classroom Diversity
Diversity by definition is the fact or quality of being diverse, difference, a point or respect in which things differ. Classroom diversity is no different than diversity. It is about being different, not all the same. Today in public schools each student comes from a different economic background, speaks a different language, is of a different gender, or of a different race. I will be talking about the diversity of all of these factors and the privileges that come with them.
Our culture values straightness, Christianity, whiteness, able-bodied ness, and maleness. In a classroom with a student who comes from a family with no money where both parents work does not go to school possessing the same knowledge that a student in the upper or middle class do. Most of the students who come in with less knowledge end up being labeled less able. This form of tracking sticks with them for the rest of their lives. It enables them to get out of the situation they......

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