In what ways is the school in which you are serving similar to or different from schools in the earlier periods of history in the United States?

There is so much diversity in the classroom that I'm observing in.
In the seats I saw children with several different skin tones, hair colors, and even height.  The differences between these students don't matter to any of them.

The students in the class perhaps notice the difference in color and race but it doesn't matter to them.  They don't seem to have any knowledge of racism, of the struggle for equality, and other important battles for education.  But they are the ones that get to reap the benefits.  They are the ones that the battles were fought for.

It makes me feel grateful that they don't have to experience the hate and the anger that accompanied battles for equality in education.  It makes me grateful that those battles have been fought so that children can have equal opportunities.