Is diversity all that counts?

It would be nice to have completely integrated and diverse schools but many times during our attempt to make everything diverse we lose sight of one very important aspect. The quality of education. A lot of times people have this image of a perfect school where there’s a variety of different students of all shades and colors and backgrounds with great teachers that are wise, all-knowing, and that encourage us. Kerri Ann made a comment about not wanting to end the class on such a hopeless note but it’s not hopeless we just have to be a little more realistic. I’m not a pessimist but the idea of having all or the majority of schools look like a great world salad is far from the reality of today. Would that be nice? Of course and I would love to go to a school like that but I feel that we have to focus on improving the quality of education because what you learn in school matters more than who’s sitting next to you. Don’t take my words out of context please and say that I am advocating for segregated schools with great curriculums but it would nice if the resources were distributed a little better. I agree with the fact that we need to strengthen our community. I don’t know how but I know we need to! And the business world in my opinion is not as diverse as everyone would like to think it is. Just because we have people like Russell Simmons, Tiger Woods, and Oprah Winfrey on TV once in a while doesn’t make it diverse. I’ve walked into numerous offices (including on this campus) and only seen Caucasians. I’ve walked into law firms, stores, libraries, and so many other places and only seen one type of people. Our schools reflect our world so if a child goes to a school where there are 3,76 white kids, seven black kids, 12 Spanish, 3 Indian, and 4 Asian in my opinion they’ll find a lot of places that they go to with the same kind of diversity. If we as a society really want diversity than why do we have to force it onto people, why do we have quotas (they are illegal but they exist), and why do people send their kids so far away when there are great schools in their neighborhoods (Martin Luther King High School). Do we want diversity or do we want to be seen as politically correct in the eyes of other countries? If we really want diversity then why do we still have HBCs (historically black colleges) and many colleges where majority of the students are white?
Here are two different links about schools.
This is about historically black colleges: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1RLF4LvGKQ
This is about the American school system: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIgo25wePss