Diversity?

[bright sparks]

I kind of understand why they would think that and I don't think it was meant in any negative way towards you or that fact that you are Caucasian and they are not. When I first came to Canada my kids went to school with people of multiple cultural backgrounds, obviously being Canada, but also of different race and I loved it. 4 years on we moved to a smaller town for the fact that we lived in a semi next to the neighbour from hell and to move to a detached house within the city and my kids school boundary would have cost us close to 200k more at the time. The town we live in now is much smaller and the minority races can be missed if you blink, they are almost non existence. I don't think this is detrimental to my children's upbringing but if I am honest, I miss them being surrounded by people from Africa, Asia and other places like they were in the city. I have tried my best to raise them to be anti-oppressive and as immigrants ourselves they have had a very different childhood so far than say me for example, growing up in the UK where racism is like a disease. Anyway, I guess what I am getting at is that perhaps this woman wants her children to be around diversity to prevent them from feeling like a minority. Maybe it is a good thing or a bad thing that she pulled them, but she is likely doing what she feels is best, which will likely be from her experience so I wouldn't think bad of her and don't think it is racist. I don't necessarily think there would be an easy way to explain this to someone, but while there shouldn't be an issue with the colour of skin, there still is and a mother will simply do what she feels is best for her children and I respect that. As a white person, I have no first hand idea what it must be like to be a minority in a predominantly white society so I can only hazard a guess based on what I have seen.