Tuesday, March 1, 2011
How in my own life and school career, have I observed education and diversity done?
Like I have previously mentioned before, I did attend an all girls boarding school in the middle of nowhere in Saskatchewan. The reasons for me attending St. Angela's was primarily to be an independent person and take control of my own education. Social diversity was never an issue at St. Angela's because we were all the same. Didn't matter if your family that this and that, we were all the same. It was cultural diversity that affected all of us girls. SAA was essentially a place where 80 different cultures can alive. We had students from not only all across Canada but across the world and we were all there to obtain one common goal: to get an education. Yes some of us were "sent" there by our mean mean parents (which is what we all thought at that time :-) ) but essentially still to receive an education. One thing that really stands out for myself as reducing barriers is that we had to wear a god awful uniform. Still to this day I will never wear blue slacks and a white collared dress shirt separately let alone together. But it was this awful uniform that made us equal, made all 75 of us the same. I personally didn't mind wearing the uniform as it was a morning routine to ask myself "Which pair of blue pants do I want to wear today. At the time of being at St. Angela's I hated it, I think everyone did. I have gone back and worked at the school as a residential dean and now don't feel like that anymore. So I think that I have seen education and diversity done and done in a positive way that made us realize that everyone is the same and taught us how to reduce barriers.
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