Bette Wilson: Text 4

Bette Wilson, director of multicultural education at Oak Park School District 97, Oak Park, Ill., notes that all students need to honor diversity and learn skills for relating to others in a diverse global society:

"The activities that go on in a classroom that contribute to literacy need to reflect the cultures of the children in the classroom, but it goes beyond that. Say, for example, you had a classroom that was homogeneous. It is also important that they look at diverse communities, because we are moving into a global society. And we do children who are in a homogeneous environment a disservice not to teach them how to relate in the world. So, not only in a classroom with diverse cultures is it important that their cultures are reflected, but it's also important in those places where we still have students that are of all one race, or all one culture."

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