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Being forced into a "diverse environment" in no way makes people more tolerant. In fact, it usually has the opposite effect.
As a little innocent kid entering kindergarten for the first time, I had no stereotypes at all. My parents are tolerant, nice people who taught me to respect everyone --- it wasn't until I was forced to attend unleveled classes with violent inner-city black kids that I developed a single idea about race at all. Since I was in a suburb of a big city they had to bus in some blacks for diversity purposes, and I was beaten up repeatedly for no reason (other than raising my hand with correct answers in class)---- then I witnessed teacher after teacher ignoring my complaints and refusing to discipline any black students even while punishing me for fighting back to DEFEND myself.
Only then did I realize that "diversity" is a complete scam, and one that education professionals care about more than actually teaching kids anything useful.
I had no prejudices against disabled people until I realized that my wealthy high school had no honors program, but a multi-million dollar budget with useless special ed teachers lavished on a small group of retards incapable of learning anything useful. Before that, when "mainstreaming" was becoming fashionable, I had to endure constant interruptions and slowed-down lessons when they put several really "challenged" kids in my elementary classes.
I entered public school with unformed ideas about the world, and left it completely disgusted with the poor quality of education that happens when you cram 30 kids, of all different intelligence levels, into one room and expect one dimwitted cow of a teacher to show them how to read. Homeschooling is a fantastic alternative, because then your kids won't resent other races and minority groups for holding them back. They also will know how to deal with bullies the old-fashioned way: by beating the shit out of anyone who tries to physically harm you, instead of being suspended by hysterical zero-tolerance morons for taking care of the problem. Subjecting your kid to 12 years of substandard education for the wonderful benefit of exposing them to different racial goups is the height of folly.
