Diversity: My Own Experience

You and I grew up in a completely different environment; you with so much diversity surrounding you for most of your life and me growing up in a small town in the south that was pretty much white bread with not very much variety in or out of school.  I want to say  you probably have a better connection with the students and families that you come in contact because of your exposure in an urban setting and have an understanding of might be going on and I envy those experiences.  As different as our lives are, I do agree that we can use our experiences, whatever they may be,  to enhance our classrooms and teach our students that it is okay to be different as long as we teach them  to make good choices and look at the positive things they have going on all around them.  Mary Kay Ward