My kindergarten students live in one of the most culturally, economically, and racially diverse cities in the country. Students' families speak English, Arabic, Spanish, Cantonese, Vietnamese, French, German, Tagalog, and Tongan. Our school is in a neighborhood that contains both subsidized apartment housing and upper-middle class single-family houses, and the school attracts families from all of these homes. My students are dropped off and picked up and cared for by their parents, grandparents, older siblings, aunties, and neighbors. Many of them take a "walking school bus," composed of rotating parent volunteers who collect neighbor kids on their walk to school with their own children. There is no majority of any one racial group at our school. About a fourth of our families are a combination of two or more races.
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My kindergarten students live in one of the most culturally, economically, and racially diverse cities in the country. Students' families speak English, Arabic, Spanish, Cantonese, Vietnamese, French, German, Tagalog, and Tongan. Our school is in a neighborhood that contains both subsidized apartment housing and upper-middle class single-family houses, and the school attracts families from all of these homes. My students are dropped off and picked up and cared for by their parents, grandparents, older siblings, aunties, and neighbors. Many of them take a "walking school bus," composed of rotating parent volunteers who collect neighbor kids on their walk to school with their own children. There is no majority of any one racial group at our school. About a fourth of our families are a combination of two or more races.
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