About Ohio/Wva schools none Since early American history, schools, like society, have addressed cultural diversity in different ways. In the colonial days, some attempts to adjust to cultural differences were made in the New York colony, but the dominant American culture was the norm in the general public, as well as most of the schools. As America approached the nineteenth century, the need for a common culture was the basis for the educational forum. …showed first 75 words of 1924 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1924 total…multicultural nation. Therefore, all elementary schools should expose their students to a broad range of our nation's racial, ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity (Cortes,20).         Schools do not determine whether or not multicultural education will occur. The societal curriculum guarantees that it will. Schools can only chose whether or not to participate in this process. For the sake of our children; I hope schools accept the challenge and address it seriously, now and in the future.