I am not sure I understood the Virginia Tech definition of diversity at all. Does eliminating treating people differently based on their “body size and condition” mean that football players now have to come to class like everyone else? Or everyone can skip if they have an “academic advisor”? And “eliminate these forms of inequality, hierarchy, and privilege”, how does that relate to ability? Is this the current generation’s attempt to slow down the smart kids and not have their achievement make others feel bad?
Holy Cow, Batman. Sounds like these programs are focused on trying to achieve equal outcomes. It seems that schools should be focusing on content and context. Once the students leave school they will be exposed to society’s ranking of all types of things that can look like inequality, hierarchy, and privilege. Like a job for instance, where it will not be enough to say “but I’m TRYING REALLY HARD” when not meeting performance expectations.
