Diversity and its Positive Affects on a High School If you were to walk into Jericho High School a decade ago you would find a homogeneous student body comprised of wealthy, white, and predominantly Jewish people. ... Felipe Mercado, a high school Spanish teacher of over twenty years at Jericho remembers that just by looking and listening to the students you could tell fairly obviously that for the most part everyone was of the same background. ...

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