Ethnic diversity in primary schools

[Yumyummyyum]

Hi,

I would like to hear some opinions on whether ethnic diversity at school is important for people from minority background.

I’m from a south asian background and weighing up whether this matters or not. For a long time I felt it was important to have some ethnic diversity in my children’s school I think based on the following two reasons:

1. I have family members who moved to all white areas in the early 80s and had bad experiences of racism/bullying. Do you think we have progressed as a society since then? I think schools are probably better at addressing this sort off thing now then they were back then.
2. I grew up in London where there was a lot of diversity and I noticed that children from similar background would sometimes group together, perhaps because of some similarity in family culture etc. As I am now more integrated into British society than my parents were and my children will be even more so, does this even matter as much now?

Yes absolutely. My children are black and a diverse school (and nursery, football team, music classes, etc) is without doubt the most important factor when we choose settings.

Yes very important!