The student was not disciplined, and the incident was not reported to the school district offices. There are no wrong answers. And no easy ones. By the numbers, San Diego schools today are more desegregated and more culturally diverse than ever. Rapid population growth has led to classroom overcrowding, which can hamper learning and lead to discipline problems.
More minorities are teachers, but the majority are still white females.
There are large numbers of parents in San Diego who don t speak English and don t know how to work with one classroom teacher, let alone a school district layered in bureaucracy. The term latchkey kid no longer requires a parenthetical definition. Nor does the term political correctness. Save for the zealot fringe, no one wants to be labeled prejudiced, biased or bigoted. Politicians, community leaders and the media stress such terms as ethnic and cultural sensitivity and lambaste what has become known as a history of exclusion.