Gave Up Geography for Diversity Training?

Writing for Publius Forum, Warner Todd Houston reports that the California El Rancho Verde Unified School District will stop requiring its high-school students to take geography and instead require them to take a class on diversity and inclusion.
98% of the school district students are Hispanic. The School District President, Aurora Villon, said the class is necessary because minority students “need to feel validated. When you negate their culture, they feel less than other students.”
What hogwash! According to President Villon's standard, one can ignore the practicalities of how the rest of the world operates as long as one feels good about himself.
Apparently it will make no difference to the newly educated Hispanics that all fighting in the Middle East is primarily based on land grabbing, that voting blocs in the US are established by geographical boundaries, and that oil and gas rights are similarly defined by geographical boundaries.
All of those practical aspects are apparently insignificant and should not bother to be recognized, providing one feels good about himself.
Instead of teaching diversity, would it not be better to teach character development? In order to do that, it should not be necessary to give up geography. When I attended PS 13 in New York, the physical education coach did that as part of his PE teaching program.