These people are idiots and an embarrassment to my profession.
I’ve met a schoolteacher or two, and I say these people are idiots and are representative of your profession.
Sorry if this seems like a rant directed at you, but it’s something I’ve wanted to say (for a long time) to the youth of America (my kids have gotten sick of hearing it - LOL)...
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LET’S TALK ABOUT DIVERSITY! Look to your left, then look to your right. Did you see the outside of two different sets of eyeballs? Those two people are DIFFERENT from you.
They may have different parents. They may have different skin color. They may have different hair or eye color. They may belong to a different gender. Maybe that person is serious, and you like to joke. Maybe that person is quiet and you are loud.
THEY ARE NOT YOU. Even if it was your twin, that person has had a different life experience from you. No matter what, the person to your left and the person to your right think a little - or a lot - different from you.
That means that you can probably learn something from that person. Probably - because most folks have something worth learning.
That also means that they probably have something they can learn from YOU.
Diversity is not measured by counting the number of occurrences in a particular category - it is measured by your willingness to learn from the people around you. YOU are the measurement of diversity, not someone else, not some roster of skin colors or genders, or anything else. YOUR attitude.
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Again, I apologize if this comes across badly.