Diversity: Let’s Celebrate!

January 21, 2010

Compared to other schools, Novi High School and the Novi Community School District are very diverse. We have students and teachers of every skin color, height, and ethnicity; and in Novi, diversity is not just something that is noticed, it is celebrated.

Every year for the past few years several students and teachers have worked together to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. in our very own Fuerst Auditorium, and this taking place just days ago reminds me of the diversity within the classrooms at Novi High.

In other schools around our area, from what I have seen at football games and other events, there is usually one race or ethnicity that is in the majority, but here in our school district there really is not a majority race.

When I walk into a classroom, whether it be in an elementary school or in our very own high school, there are always people that are different from one another, and we are friends with each other. It isn’t like back in the “olden days” when people of one culture didn’t talk to people of another.

Thanks in part of the great Dr. King, we are able to be in schools with people from all over the world, we are able to experience different cultures as part of a language class, and because of the help of Dr. King we are able to be who we are today, and be who we want to be in the future.

Without the historic events that took place many years ago, who knows what society would be like today? Though I could go on and on about the diversity in our lives and the way it helps us grow as individuals, I must say that if things today were like they were back then, I don’t think anyone’s life would be the way it is today and we definitely wouldn’t have the opportunities and learning experiences we do now.

So let’s not only acknowledge the diversity we have, but let’s celebrate it!

p.s. - Let’s not forget about the diversity and all the good that we can do when we band together as one. Please be thoughtful towards the disaster in Haiti, and help our Student Council raise money to help others in need, as they would do for us if the situations were reversed.