It seems often when Dr. Hammond speaks, she talks about Grand Blanc’s levels of diversity. I can only speak for myself when I look around for this racial and ethnic potpourri, and see lot more white faces than advertised.
“Is Grand Blanc diverse enough?” is the question, but how diverse is “diverse enough?”

I have friends at other local high schools that talk about the one or two black people they know and it always seems absurd to me, as it would for most Grand Blanc High School students, I imagine. Maybe this isn’t just a race thing either, Dr. Hammond could mean the diverse personalities or the diverse levels of income, of diverse background of the students forcing their ways through each other in our knotted halls.

Here is what some of them had to say:

One student said it was“ super diverse” continuing by saying that we just had like Muslim week. Which is true, during the past week the Muslim Student Association encouraged students to ask any of its members a question regarding their religion. Hijabs were also made available to any girl who wanted one; some teachers even gave extra credit for wearing one.
Despite this, senior Hisham Al-Jabban who is a Muslim (not a member of MSA though) said that Grand Blanc was mostly white people and was not diverse enough when asked the same question.

He is also right. According to the files in the main office, GBHS is comprised of 77 percent Caucasian students. Other Nationalities represented include African American, 16 percent, Asain American, 4 percent, and Hispanic American, 3 percent. Any other ethnicities were either not tallied at all or less than one percent and rounded down.

These numbers are very similar to the ethnic breakdown of the United States, with the exception of Hispanic American percent which is much larger. Keeping in mind that the United States is one of the most diverse countries in the world, what does this say about Grand Blanc? If anything we are a pretty accurate representation of the country we live in, and most likely just as, or more, diverse than other local high schools.

Whether or not we are diverse enough depends on who you ask, although a common theme seemed to appear within the people I asked. Those who fell into the bulky 77 percent tended to think we were diverse enough, and those who fell into the other 23 percent did not.