So I visited my friend’s school and I walked away with some interesting thoughts

My friend is a high school math teacher. To paint the picture the best way possible, she is pretty, white, blond haired, blue eyed, and very liberal. If ever I need to learn what the politically correct opinion is, then she is my go to. None of this means that I agree with her all or even most of the time. But, I do have to thank her for giving me some interesting topics to think about during my visit.

Diversity doesn’t mean majority.

One of the things I was told before I visited was the school was very diverse. So I walked in expecting some United Nations situation. It was not the case. The school is 70-80% black (African-American if you prefer, but it IS less descriptive, my cousin of the super white variety was born in Zimbabwe so he is African-American but that is not the group to which I refer), with the rest of the students being either white or Mexican. It could just be that “diverse” is her way or the politically correct way to say mostly black, but I think it’s dishonest. I don’t care that a school is mostly black, but just say so. Unless you think saying so is bad, which is a wrong way to think.

Controversy doesn’t count if everyone agrees.

The high school students were given an art project to make a banner about controversial topics. The first one I saw was of a large blue puzzle, which had some pop science references to global warming. Each puzzle piece had a lonely artic animal being separated from the others by drifting ice islands. Tears and sadness. The polar bear population is on the rise, but who cares about facts in the world of liberal high school teachers and students who DGAF because they got the new apple thingy. So the giant poster whose sole baseline was heat is bad because it hurts artic creatures, rates about a 3 in the controversial scale (10 is the debate for who has the best cuisine, 1 is beer, just the statement “beer”). A giant poster of the Black Lives Matter movement, hung against a window in the staircase. Is the BLM movement controversial, yes. This school however is majority black which makes me think that any contrary opinion of BLM was non-existent. A third poster was “Diversity,” and fourth was “Solidarity.” Really not sure what is controversial about these two.

I would have loved to have seen some real controversy, even if I ended up disagreeing. What I got instead was blatant pandering of the students to what the teachers agreed with. BORING.