Assimilation in Schools

I believe that the most common of these three is assimilation. Assimilation occurs in many different ways in our schools, and it is unfortunately a part of life that we all have to learn to accept, no matter the consequences. America is more commonly known as the melting pot, one would assume automatically that the schools would consists of numerous cultures yet we still insist on forcing the American way of life onto many of …

…bread). Bringing matzo into the school and workplace causes questions for many and sometime the feeling of being an outcast. Many children in this situation take the criticisms they experience to heart and give up many of their cultural practices in order to "fit in" with the norm. Our schools should offer more education backgrounds of the cultures they serve in order to eliminate prejudices and criticisms that are made simply out of being uninformed.