It is obvious that you have not been active in the United States educational system for a couple of decades.

They will "eat you live, and spit out the pieces" if you attempt to use the melting pot analogy; it is offensive to many minorities who have "lost their identity" in the amalgom of American homogenization. Many prefer the "Salad Bowl" analogy where each piece retains its own distict "tomato-ness" or "onion-ness" with the loss of distinction; and others are even offended by this.

There are some other problems with your approach; you better run this past district administrators first.