B.C. Enquirer: Students embrace diversity

It’s been a long-running Lakeview tradition for the homecoming court to poke fun at each other during the pep assembly, but some parents and officials saw this year’s jokes as disparaging, reports the Battle Creek Enquirer. As the adults clamored to respond, Lakeview students struggled to understand what the big deal was.

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Indeed, fast-changing demographics at Lakeview and other schools are challenging old stereotypes. Michigan’s Schools of Choice program, changes in birth rates for minorities and the state’s long-suffering economy mean schools long thought of as white and upper-class, such as Lakeview, are becoming increasingly diverse. Calhoun Intermediate School District officials said many local schools are reviewing the way they teach, partly because of the changing demographics. Add to the changing demographics today’s high-tech world that allows kids to make friends in Egypt as easily as next door and that increasingly diverse world means students “are a much more accepting generation,” Roy said.

“There’s just a huge generation gap in everything,” she said. “It’s really hard to understand sometimes.”

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Source: Battle Creek Enquirer