Diversity

The Department of Curriculum & Instruction takes great delight in the word diversity. Can we agree the concept of diversity encompasses acceptance and respect? And it means understanding that each individual is unique, and recognizing our individual differences. These can be along the dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs, political beliefs, or other ideologies. In reality, the world of academia, more specifically Dr. Heather Oesterreich, promotes diversity as acceptance and respect for her own personal ideologies. She uses the classroom as her podium and her position as Director of Secondary Education to bully the students into concession. She does knows best...after all, she has a doctorate degree which means she is really, really smart.