Forcing diversity in public schools needs to end.
We could generously call it a noble experiment, but it’s become clear that after two decades of redistricting, faculty and student diversity training, and holiday free-for-alls, we’re not a tighter-knit population than we were before. In fact, these examples of forced diversity have often led to MORE tensions among the people who were made to suffer through them.
Forced diversity is why the National Football League mandates that every team hiring a new coach must interview a black candidate. Forced diversity is why the president of Harvard University was forced to resign after musing that innate preferences or ability differences might be part of why there were more men than women in high-end science and engineering positions. Forced diversity makes otherwise intelligent people believe that all school systems, businesses, and occupations should have demographics that exactly mirror the demographics of our entire country.
In addition to the fact that forced diversity doesn’t work, it cheats our students out of valuable instructional time. It’s time for all of us to cancel the Kwanzaa/Hanukkah/Christmas units this year and use the time we’ve saved to teach more reading, writing, and arithmetic.
It was interesting while it lasted, but forced diversity has proven to be a failure.
Posted by mpullen 
