Chapter 2: Today's Students

1. How racially and ethnically diverse are our schools?

In the 2nd chapter of The Joy of Teaching Gene E. Hall, Linda F.Quinn and Donna M. Gollnick talk about different issues that arise in schools. Whether it is racial, ethnic or gender discrimination, teaching kids English as a second language or even the problems that arise from integrating students with disabilities into schools. The issue that was most talked about was the problems with racial and ethnic diversity in schools. The book talked about many statistics about the kids of color in different schools.  Although many kids of color are from the south and west, the book talked about how each ethnic group seems to migrate to one area.  So in the areas where these ethnic groups are, the schools are very diverse; yet in those same schools, the kids form different opinions of others and tend to stick with their own.