Main street, Richey, Montana. Rural education offers its own unique set of triumphs and challenges. Small, isolated communities are built upon strong, traditional family values. The school is often the center of these communities, playing host to Saturday night dates, choir concerts, and basketball games. I grew up in one of these rural places, graduating with 16 other students. The high school had less than 50 kids, grades 9-12. Today, more than 20 years later, the high school is at least half that size. While many assumptions could be made about rural schools, the students who attend them, and the teachers who teach there, one assumption that should be avoided is the belief that diversity is unnecessary. Specifically, it is important to offer students options and present them with stories and characters who are different from themselves. It is more important to present these stories to young people in rural schools because they do not see the events, in...