Diversity seems to have become synonymous with gayness with a lot of people. I just don't see it as that. To me, it means respecting others' differences (yet striving for common purposes), but not promoting anything to do with sexual overtones (which does not belong in a grade school classroom).
I have a guy with Down's Syndrome come help every Friday. He helps me a lot and the kids absolutely love him and he loves them. He was hesitant to show up again this year, but when a couple of students showed up last year and gave him big hugs, "Jim" relented and said he would be back. He is a big teddy bear and has such a great outlook on life. His favorite thing to say is, "I love my life." That's an attitude a lot of people, including me, could learn to have. I have so many fun stories from last year about Jim. He has become a great friend in the process too. This year, after the first time helping, the kids said, "Jim talks a little funny, but I sure like him."
I have seen Jim through happiness and sadness--especially when his handicapped niece passed away. Jim had a special connection with her and his first reaction was, "Am I next?"
So that is my little lesson on diversity except I'm not the one doing the teaching. Jim shows us every Friday what unconditional love and a zest for life is all about and we are better because of him.
I wish everything didn't have to be so political and that we could learn to appreciate the little golden nuggets in life. Someday, I hope to say as Jim does and "love my life."
Celebrating people's differences by pretending not to notice them.
Diversity is another word the left has redefined. Once upon a time, it meant variety. Now it only encompasses one variety - the militant and offensively weird.
The desireable kind of diversity isn't perverts who happen to be gay parading around in freakish costumes groping each other, La Raza demanding the return of the Southwest to Mexico, or inner city drug dealers singing about carjacking and killing police. It's people of all backgrounds, physical abilities, and stations in life with a thousand different perspectives on the small stuff but who stand with each other sight unseen when a real trial comes along to any of them.
That doesn't need to be propagandized onto school kids to get any support, because noone disagrees with it in the first place. It doesn't even need to be called diversity, because a better word for it is America.
Bill of Rights
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
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You can see in the First Amendment that the Founders did not want an ESTABLISHMENT of Religion. Acknowledging God is not an ESTABLISHMENT of Religion.