The stay here is left just one more week finally. Every event and moment, I cannot help feeling that it is the last time to do something.

Today was the last day of AACE program, which I have been involved with throughout the year at Polk Elementary school as a volunteer worker. Since I got to the school kind of late today, I couldn窶冲 really see their performance that they have been working on during the semester such as dancing or playing. But it seemed to be really nice.

I have memorized most of the student窶冱 name and got to be very friendly with most of them. I was told previously that one of the purposes of this volunteer work is to give an image or a role model to the students, especially who have an economical difficulty to achieve the higher education or who don窶冲 have any college student figure around them. I am not sure if my presence has helped the students form the future dream or positive image of their life (or maybe they don窶冲 seriously think of it at this point); however, we have definitely enjoyed playing and reading, or just being together. I, at last, didn窶冲 tell them that today was the last day of my attendance to the program (probably they believe that I will come back here after the summer, for that matter, it is better not to tell them about it because it just makes some of them sad).

One of my concerns that I have observed in this school through the attendance of the program was the diversity education in the elementary school. As I mentioned previous entries, there are diverse students in this school in terms of their color of the skin, and my concern is that if they are separated or segregated against their color of the skin when they play or study. Based on my experience and observation up to now, my answer would be that they, the second graders, don窶冲 really care such kind of tiny element of her/his personality. It even sounds silly to make such argument when I think about their life. They are doing very well regardless of their color of the skin.

What makes things better is the attitude of the teacher, Mrs. Tory. She doesn窶冲 segregate students at any moment during her class for any reason. She treats children completely fair regardless of their gender or color of the skin. This seems to be easy, but actually, it cannot be done in an easy way; teacher has to care about their feeling which is different from one another, especially their emotions is unstable. In this respect, I think Mrs. Tory is a great teacher. Every teacher has to be her quality.

I believe that this diversity education contributes to the construction of the more equalized society. Children will grow up without any prejudices or biases, and this consciousness does change the society, suppose that the majority forms the public opinion. I think this education should spread all over the United States and the world, and then, the unnecessary discrimination in schools would extinct in the future. On my way to back to the college, these ideas were wandering in my mind.