It means that there is real variation in the school population. While a school's job is to educate everyone, the range of educational goals and interests means that different students follow very different routes in life, and some of their paths never cross. A real understanding of differences means accepting that not everyone will know or even want to know everyone else. In the end, the truth is that life is full of inequalities that have nothing to do with the color of your skin. What really separates individuals is how much ambition, responsibility, and talent they have, or how little.
Ambition crosses racial categories.
So do talent and the drive to be successful in life. While race is certainly an important aspect of life at my school and many others, it is not the only way students show their differences. Some students will never be good at soccer, some will never survive an Advanced Placement English class, some will never show up for early-bird biology lab. And that, not race, is the real dividing line. 1999 Editorial Projects in Education Vol.