Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Interaction with Diverse Peers A few years ago, we moved to a new town in the rural south during the summer. At the start of school, I was delighted to see that my son's class was quite diverse in its ethnic and racial composition. I shared with my son's fifth grade teacher that my son had a diverse groups of friends at her previous school. I told her that I would like him to work and play with as many diverse peers as possible. However, all my son's partners for projects, peers at his table, and even suggestions of "good" friends for my son have all been the same ethnicity (nearly all the same gender too) as him. I don't want to be perceived as a bothersome parent at this new school, but my son's interaction with diverse peers is important to me. What should I do? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) Conversations with both the teacher and your son will be important. That communication is key to overturning this delema. I would recommend also seeing if you could set up playmates with the other parents, or to study together. Still push the teacher of course, but supplement the lack of it being present in the mean time.