Teachers must view expanding horizons of students as necessary and as their duty to the students. By giving the students this new knowledge, teachers can ensure that their students will recognize and respect differences among people and choose a suitable path in their social and personal development.
Teachers must also consider the actions and the behavior that they allow in the classroom. Things that most people would deem trivial, like always asking for a male student's assistance in carrying desks or other heavy objects, or hanging posters which only portray Caucasian heroes, may be view as discriminatory. Teachers also must consider the characters represented in textbooks or other required readings. .
Not only must the environment and the feeling of the classroom be nondiscriminatory, but the subject material should also reflect a desire to spread respect for diversity. For example, instead of only giving the account for what the determining factors were for America in World War II, a teacher should give the entire account by giving the reasons for the Japanese attack. Not only will this more-in-depth subject material give the students a better understanding of the events, but they will also be able to develop their own relevant retrieval cues. The new material will have more of an impact on the students, and their retention of the information will prove this point.
As educators and administrators are trying to expose the traditions, they should not take political correctness to the point of reverse discrimination. Traditions of society remain important and should be instilled in students. If the students receive a full education, they may begin to discover that some of their most cherished traditions do not even derive from America. With their full education, future generations may begin to remember and respect the cultures that have given them so many traditions.
Rules and regulations also need to be strictly, but fairly enforced.