Observer Speech of the Week: Diversity--the game vs. Diversity the life; Citizen rises to question Supr. Heidi Carvin

The other night at the Evansville School Board meeting, Supr. Heidi Carvin made the argument that the half day kindergarten was not as "diverse" as the full day kindergarten and hence it would be beneficial to be eliminated so as to promote diversity.

The audience was just a little bit stunned by the argument. Then someting pretty remarkable happened. A woman asked to speak. She was someone who could speak to the diversity of life, not just the game.

Click on the post to hear her remarks:

To take a subset of 12 half time students and assert they needed to be eliminated because of some "diversity theory" was so outrageous it stunned most everyone. On that basis of that analysis, every department of school or city government could be eliminated.

The Observer salutes this woman for her courage in rising to challenge this flawed application.

Diversity is all about tolerance and Mr. Conners had spoken to this a few moments earlier. A little more tolerance and a lot less baloney would go a long way in the discussion.

Amen.