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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
Also, the ability to empathise with diverse children and families is crucial in teaching. A teacher preparation program which emphasises future teachers working with, getting to know, sharing ideas with, understanding and being friends with peers from more diverse experiences is going to produce teachers who are more empathetic to the variety of children and families that they will need to work with in the community. This is a better teacher preparation program.
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So the liberal ideal - that people look past one another's gender, race, and religion and regard one another as unique individuals - is pretty much dead? Because judging by the dogma coming from the progressive left these days, it sure looks like it.
And what about the elephant in the room when it comes to society and identity - class. In order to ensure that students from poor families have properly empathetic teachers, should be put quotas in place to increase the number of teachers who were raised in families with < 40K family income? Or raised by families with single-parents, or parents suffering from addictions? Which of the dozens of identities and social influences a person is subject to in their life do we enshrine with 'diversity' status?