<p>Weatherby: 55% non-caucasian assumes that all of the international students are students of color–which is not the case. However, it’s certainly true that PE is an unusually diverse place.</p>
<p>Still, I don’t think it’s accurate to lump all students of color into one homogeneous mass. A wealthy girl from Hong Kong is worlds apart from an inner city boy. (African-American, Hispanic, or white) from the Bronx. My kid commented to me once that he felt he had most in common (in terms of families and values) with non-Asian minority kids at his school --most of those kids came from families where parents were teachers or other middle class professionals. In many ways, those kids are the ones representing mainstream America.</p>