Diversity, or A Lack There Of

We've been talking about Martin Luther King Jr., which has been awesome. The holiday very nicely fit into our unit on leadership, and I love getting to teach even the most basic levels of history and social studies. 

Our conversations about segregation have been great (kids are so quick to hate injustice in the most beautiful way), but there has also been some confusion.

During reading group, I had a couple kids ask, "So... are you African American?" (I am, in fact, an extremely pale-skinned individual.) And then they looked around our all-white classroom, looking for any kid with even a tan, and then asked what race they were.

I'm thinking we need some diversity up in here.