<p>Diversity – ethnic and socio-economic – is absolutely important to me as to the schools my children attend. I am a UCLA professor, my dad was a machinist. I was bussed for integration in 1970, and that was actually not a good experience (I was bussed to a “White” school) but, putting aside forced integration, an ideal school would have excellent instruction and the students would come from a broad range of backgrounds as to wealth and ethnicity.</p>