At first glimpse you would say that WC HS is a lily white school and that there really is no diversity in the school system, but that could not be further from the truth. The skin color is the same but that is where the similarities stop, the parents raise their kids in different situations, the incomes of most families are below the poverty line. There is huge difference in the school even know they all have the same skin color and look about the same in a picture. Statistics are what make the world go round, the black verse white numbers are the only cultural difference most people see when that really has nothing to do with it. Appalachia is totally different then Lexington, KY, the white kids here and the white kids there to no even have close to the same life, but because they have the same skin pigmentation we bunch them all together and figure our stats. That is wrong on many different levels, the kids are the ones who suffer.
In the school I teach in there is maybe 2% is not white, but there is still a huge culture difference in all of my classes. Some kids live at home with both parents, some live with one or the other, some live with grandma and grandpa who are still under 50, some just move out totally and get married. Now after reading that last sentence don't you think there might be some cultural differences in WC HS. Try and look past the color next you do a survey, try and look at the kids and the living situation before you come to a conclusion on a child's life.
The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.
William Wordsworth
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