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You are one of many people including teachers, administrators, parents and community members participating in a school board meeting on the topic of detracking math at the local middle school. A parent stands up and voices the concern that detracking will "water down" the curriculum and hurt intelligent students. What is the inherent problem with this statement?

Detracking never results in negative curricular changes. Designing the curriculum to meet the average students' needs (or "watering down") is essential to everyone's success. The focus remains on high-achieving students, muting the voices of students who have been marginalized.

Your school has decided to invite the photo exhibit, Love Makes a Family: Portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People and Their Families through the Family Diversity Projects, as a strategy to connect visual imagery and text. Several parents shared their disapproval stating that the material was inappropriate for elementary children. How should the principal respond to these remarks?

All of the above. As a multicultural school, we work for social justice that begins in the earliest grades with the most elemental of human experience to help students imagine a fair world for "all kinds of families." The Love Makes a Family images and stories serve the purpose of stretching our students' understanding of what families are like. The images may reflect many families in our school or they may provide a loving view of families' different from his/her own family. The Love Makes a Family images reflect all kinds of families. We support all families at this school. All children and families are welcome and honored in our schools.

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