Where I teach the majority of the population is Black, then you have a population of Vietnameese, Hispanic, and White, not necessarily in that ranking order. The school is public. Whatever the students are taught, they have learned it from one another, primarily. There isn't a set curriculum offered which provides multicultural teaching/learning. These students have been "together" since grade school, except for the Vietnamese. They recently got here, some of them.
Many of the students are products or they are around an environment of "interracial" relationships, not limited to Blacks and whites. Even though the school system and the parish (county) that this school is a representation of is NOT diverse, the school campus is.
Now, if you are speaking of the teachers. Most of the teachers have been in the profession for over 20 years. Multiculturalism? Diversity? they aren't really trying to hear that (some). They have been teaching the SAME subjects, with the SAME lesson plans, AND the SAME tests for soooo long that the only thing they are worried about are the days left before retirement.
Personally, I feel that this is something that needs to be introduced AT HOME. That guy has the knowledge, or the lack there of because of an IGNORANT parent. If the parent was more knowledgeable then that guy would would know truth from fiction. Since that is not the case, The Real World is an outlet for him to learn (the hard way) about diversity and the REAL WORLD.
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