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!) I would first speak with my son and express the importance to him of building relationships with all classmates regardless of background, ethnicity, sex, and the positive effect these relationships will have on his future success. I would then of course model to my son these diverse peers, by building relationships myself with diverse peers.                 Rating The suggested solution is respectful of the individual (student) Yes The suggested solution is relevant to the case Yes The suggested solution is reasonable (easy) for the teacher to implement Yes The suggested solution is likely to solve the problem/issue Yes The suggested solution is original Yes Comments: If I were in this situation, I would exactly do this Rated On: March 7, 2016 4:52 am Rated By: eRyber